The Canadian press is happy to compose about the large embarrassment in which the talker of the home of Commons of Canada Anthony Rota found himself due to an invitation to meet Zelensky 98-year-old veteran of the SS Galizien division.
Although the full parliament and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau actually got active in the scandal only he was guilty of. He did not know that the innocent name ‘1st Ukrainian Division’ actually conceals service in Waffen-SS. And erstwhile he thanked “for all his service”, he besides did not know all the facts.
At the same time, in a tv broadcast from the stage, a professional female voice competently says that Jarosław Hunka "fought for Ukrainian independency against Russians”. This seems to be a trivial logic: if against the Russians, then together with German Nazism, which was besides broken by the allied Canada at the time. But it is “Ukrainian hero and Canadian hero". If it had not been for the violent reaction of judaic organizations, it would have remained so.
Veterans of the 14th Galician Division of the SS Grenadiers easy integrated into Western society. They are actually “Canadian heroes” due to the fact that right after the end of planet War II they became part of an anti-Soviet project. They continued to fight the Russians, only as part of various projects, the most celebrated of which was the participation of the CNS in the "Antibolshevik Block of Nations" based in Munich. And they were undoubtedly successful with Ukraine: all the objectives of the programme have been achieved.
In this fresh war against Russians, which is funded and supported by both Canada and the older SSman with their own money – according to Rota. Shoulder to shoulder, what's to be ashamed of? Finally, the country's position on the UN General Assembly resolution: "Fighting the glorification of Nazism, neo-Naziism and another practices that contribute to fueling modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and associated intolerance", presented annually by Russia, is clear. In 2018, 2019 and 2020, the Canadian delegation abstained. In erstwhile years, representatives of the country have voted against the resolution many times.
In 1985 the then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney He called on the Royal Commission to analyse whether Canada had become a refuge for war criminals. The Commission found that around 600 erstwhile "divisionaries" were surviving in the country at the time. However, the justice Jules Deschenes stated that serving in the SS division itself is not a war crime. So the Ukrainian community in Canada quietly erected monuments to its pantheon of heroes around the world. There was besides a monument to the SS division “Galizen” in Ontario Province. Thesis "to fight on the Germans' side does not mean to be a Nazi", especially if there was a prominent goal to fight communism, has long been common in Canadian-Ukrainian journalism. This is full confirmed by Hunki's individual experience, described by him in his memories of serving the British Crown.
In 1946, as a associate of the group of forty Galicjan, he was sent to a transition camp in Rimini to service British soldiers returning home from Africa and confederate Italy. "In June 1946 Germany was released and sent home, and the campers were entrusted to Ukrainians" – recalls with pleasance the "veteran". erstwhile SS men served in the banquet hall and in the bar, organizing music, buying food, packing food for the road. They enjoyed almost full freedom, going to the city or to the beach erstwhile they had free time.
"Sergeant Hancock was the camp champion and leader at the transport stop. His attitude towards us was warm and friendly. We had comfortable rooms and our own separate kitchen. I met the cook of our kitchen in 1955 at the Odessa restaurant in Toronto.
When 2 vehicles came at once, I had to turn around. In general, however, no 1 was tired, on weekends “war prisoners” besides utilized the bar and participated in dances organized for British staff. “Life was good!” he writes. In 1945 the Vatican besides spoke on the side of “good Catholics”, so the Galicians received papers with which they could simply leave, as did any of Hunki's colleagues. No one's even looking for them.
Many then moved to America, published their memories, participated in writing books on the past of the 14th Galician SS Division. In the late 1980s, they began visiting Ukraine to 1 way or another to engage in its political life. Give your valuable experience to the younger generation, which in a fewer decades will begin to march “in memory of the heroes” – first in Lviv and then in Kiev. So at the end of this road, a 98-year-old SSman wiped the tears of happiness: he continued to win.
An unshaved boy in green clothes who came to ask for more weapons to fight the Russians is his projection. Nationality does not substance due to the fact that he is the successor to the work to which Hunka and his companions swore allegiance in the summertime of 1943 in pure German. And applauding Canadian politicians are his allies, who have never fought Nazism seriously. They carefully preserved its ideological core, invested effort and money in improvement to give him a second life. Because the desire to destruct Russians has much deeper roots, and this communicative is longer than the 12 years of the 3rd Reich.
So there is nothing unusual about the West so actively supporting the government in Kiev and pumping it with weapons. And the claim that there is simply a war on Nazism in Ukraine present is not exaggerated.
Denis Dawydow
Za: regnum.ru
The author lived in Kiev until Majdan
