https://www.theprogressreport.ca/monuments_to_nazi_collaborators_in_edmonton_vandalized_again
Edmonton's statue of Roman Shukhevych, an infamous Ukrainian Nazi collaborator, has once again been defaced with red paint. This time, a second local monument—a memorial honouring the 14th Waffen SS Division—was targeted as well.
An unknown person or persons painted the words "Nazi monument" and "14th Waffen SS" on the latter monument, which is housed at the St. Michael's cemetary on the north side of the city. Shukhevych's statue was painted with the words "actual Nazi."
The Polish Institute of National Remembrance’s investigation into the anti-Polish campaign is unequivocal about its result: a brutal massacre.
“The crime was committed by the 4th battalion of the 14th division on February 28. On that day, early in the morning, soldiers of this division, dressed in white, masking outfits, surrounded the village. The village was cross-fired by artillery. SS-men of the 14th Division of the SS “Galizien” entered the village, shooting the civilians rounded up at a church. The civilians, mostly women and children, were divided and locked in barns that were set on fire. Those who tried to run away were killed. Witnesses interrogated by the prosecutors of the Head Commission described the morbid details of the act. The crime was committed against women, children, and newborn babies,” investigators wrote.
These monuments are in Edmonton because many veterans of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the 14th Waffen SS Division migrated to Canada a few years after the war. Many in the organized Ukrainian community regard them as heroes,” explained Himka.
When the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex, who maintain the Shukhevych statue, were contacted about the statue being defaced they replied by referencing a statement they provided to the Progress Report in July, 2020 on the matter, asserting that their position had not changed.
In that statement they denied that Shukhevych had committed war crimes, claiming the evidence of this was fabricated by the KGB. They referenced his “heroic” leadership of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army against Nazi and Soviet rule and that he died in battle against Soviet operatives in 1950.
Please give up this propaganda line of Ukrainian nationalists = Banderists = Nazis, therefore all Ukrainian nationalists are Nazis. It’s infantile.