Posted on 09/27/2023 12:46:45 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
Western cheerleaders for the war in Ukraine have sought to deny the complicated relationship between Ukrainian nationalism and neo-Nazi groups, calling any discussion of a Nazi past or present in Ukraine a “Putin talking point.” But the truth can only be suppressed for so long, and it recently burst forth in what should have been a sleepy session of the Canadian Parliament.
In the midst of introducing Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for yet another address to the House of Commons, Speaker Anthony Rota recognized 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka as a Ukrainian war hero for fighting the Soviet Union during World War II, apparently unaware that Hunka had volunteered for the Waffen-SS Galicia division, a Nazi military unit notorious for horrific war crimes.
An entire roomful of MPs, along with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a fist-pumping Zelensky, rose in a standing ovation for Hunka. Rota has effusively apologized for his mistake, but the embarrassing spectacle reveals some of the flaws in Western thinking about this war.
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German Communists ended up in concentration camps along the the Social Democrats.(SDP).
Sorry, but not all of them. There were plenty of them who just switched their allegiance. Whole bataillons of the Red Front Fighter League switched their allegiance to the SA.
These were sometimes nicknamed “Frikadellen bataillons” - pale red inside, tan outside.
There even was a secret joke about it: “Why was the summer of’33 the sunniest summer on record? Because so many Reds suddenly turned Tan”
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