The last American Volodymyr Zelenski escapade failed. First, he spoke at the UN General Assembly, where, as many have noted, the hall was not over-filled and about half of the seats could have been empty, which must have powerfully touched Zelenski, who as a erstwhile cabaret artist must have been delicate to attendance success.
Government media in Ukraine tried to mask this by showing the talker Zelenski, but already the gathering area during president Biden's earlier speech erstwhile it was full. The comic effect was thus achieved, as Zelenski performed alternately in subsequent shots, in the hall and on the speaker, indicating that he had wonderful bilocation capacity.
For Poland, his speech was so unfriendly that, not directly, but he suggested that, through disagreement with imports of Ukrainian grain, Poland supports Russia, he helps to “prepare the phase for Moscow actor”.
Well, there are people you can aid the more they hatred you and they'll never forget it. For the future, this should be taken into account and a average commitment to aid Ukraine, so that it does not go beyond the European average.
Then, erstwhile addressing the members of the safety Council, Zelenski powerfully praised and recommended the admission of Germany as a permanent associate of that Council. However, it is not right to forecast the success of these procedures which Germany has been trying to push for a long time and without any success.
The effort to usage Zelenski's already decreasing popularity for this intent will besides fail.
Then things got worse. U.S. home of Representatives talker Kevin McCarthy did not let Zelenski to talk before Congress, and previously announced that he would request from the Ukrainian president a study on the usage of aid already received from the US, which was a clear signal that further assistance to Ukraine was no longer unconditional and could be stopped.
This must have seriously irritated Zelenski and his surroundings, who thought to compensate for this image failure by visiting Canada, where, utilizing the influences and capabilities of Ukrainian emigration, it was decided to phase the triumphal reception of Zelenski in the parliament there.
However, this time the effect was definitely overturned, and alternatively of Zelenski's triumph, it turned into a large scandal that could shake the foundations of current power in Canada, and will surely have serious consequences.
And it was about a certain, almost 1 hundred-year-old, SS man who was presented at the gallery during Zelenski's visit and was arranged as a “Ukrainian-Canadian hero”, a large standing ovation.
The effects of this pathetic and disgraceful performance did not take long. rather rapidly it was established that this "Ukrainian-Canadian hero", in fact, was a man called Jarosław Hunka, a erstwhile SSman and associate of the criminal SS Galizien formation.
In this way, very much progressive, liberal and everywhere looking, and absolutely combating any, besides invented, manifestations of racism, homophobia, and whatever else, the Parliament and the Canadian Government, held a large fete for, this time authentic, SS.
The political effects of this performance, bringing to head the Flying Circus of Monty Python, are very serious. The ruling political class in Canada is desperately trying to reduce losses and all the blame by only blaming the talker of the home of Commons, who was Anthony Rota. He does not evade guilt, apologizes, and yet resigns, which may be the beginning of a serious political crisis in Canada, where the ruling coalition has only a tiny majority.
Meanwhile, the opposition does not let go and points out that the Ukrainian SS scandal is only the tip of the iceberg and it is the consequence of making Canada, after the war, a safe haven for Ukrainian Nazis, where they could prosper and become politically influential.
An interesting case is the career of the current Deputy Prime Minister of Christia Freeland, granddaughter of Nazi collaborator Mikhail Chomiak. Of course, the issue is not the specified kinship, and the fact that Freeland denied that Chomiak was a collaborator, while prof. John-Paul Himka showed that she had long known about the facts that contradicted her version.
We besides have an crucial politician in Poland who announced that he saw nothing about his grandfather's war past.
The opposition shows the tremendous hypocrisy of the current authorities, which let the removal of monuments of large figures from Canada's history, like its first Prime Minister John A. Macdonald, Queen Victoria, or even Elizabeth II, under the appearance that they do not correspond to current left-liberal ideas. Meanwhile, the same authorities hold fetas to the SSman and tolerate that there is simply a immense monument in Oakville to the 14th Ukrainian SS Division.
It is so not amazing that the opposition is demanding the resignation of the current Prime Minister Trudeau and his replacement, mentioned above, Christia Freeland.
This case besides has a Polish context, due to the fact that after it all came to light, the Polish Minister of Education Przemysław Czarnek responded, who asked the IPN for a question of the act to analyse whether this "Ukrainian-Canadian hero" committed, during the war, crimes in Poles, which would be the basis for his extradition. This action of the Polish minister was besides widely commented on in the world.
As for Polish-Ukrainian-Canadian relations, it is worth recalling that Poland was the first country to recognise the independency of Ukraine, and in this action Poland overtook, only by a fewer hours, Canada. In this way, in my opinion, it is most likely unnecessary, Poland found itself between Ukrainian vodka and Canadian snack.
Stanisław Lewicki
