Posted on 09/25/2023 9:48:03 AM PDT by Kazan
The trip to Canada by Ukrainian President Zelensky was meant to divert from his lackluster United Nations and US Congress appearances, and give Kiev some semblance of a victorious Foreign Relations moment.
To do that, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau had his guest come to a special Parliament session, in which ‘he was interrupted by standing ovations seven times’ – as the MSM lore goes.
However, Zelensky and Trudeau have unwittingly detonated a PR bomb that is hurting both of their reputations, and exposed the horrible reality of the Nazi ties of the Ukrainian ‘banderite’ regime.
The unforced error was to bring 98-year-old Ukrainian immigrant Yaroslav Hunka, who fought for the First Ukrainian Division. That Nazi division was also known as the Waffen-SS Galicia Division.
Yes, all the parliament honored a Nazi with a stand-up ovation.
Fox News reported:
“Canadian Jewish organizations and social media critics are slamming the Canadian Parliament for giving a man who fought for the Nazis a standing ovation during an event featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to the country.
‘FSWC is appalled that Canada’s Parliament gave a standing ovation to a Ukrainian veteran who served in a Nazi military unit during the Second World War implicated in the mass murder of Jews and others. An apology and explanation is owed’, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Canadian nonprofit dedicated to educating people on the Holocaust, wrote on X, previously known as Twitter.”
Parliament erupted into cheers honoring Yaroslav Hunka, which fought for the Nazis as its paramilitary arm.
“‘The fact that a veteran who served in a Nazi military unit was invited to and given a standing ovation in Parliament is shocking. At a time of rising antisemitism and Holocaust distortion, it is incredibly disturbing to see Canada’s Parliament rise to applaud an individual who was a member of a unit in the Waffen-SS, a Nazi military branch responsible for the murder of Jews and others and that was declared a criminal organization during the Nuremberg Trials’, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center continued in their statement.”
Social media erupted condemning the Canadian House for celebrating Hunka, who some called a ‘literal Nazi’ and ‘monster’.
Trudeau, guess what? Deflected and laid the blame elsewhere. In this case, with the Speaker of the House.
“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office said in a statement to Fox News Digital on Sunday that the ‘Speaker of the House has apologized and accepted full responsibility for issuing the invitation and for the recognition in Parliament’.”
But it’s too late: the cat is out of the bag, and everyone is getting to know about the reality of Nazis in Ukraine
Speaker of the House Anthony Rota apologized Sunday for honoring Hunka.
CBC reported:
“‘I have subsequently become aware of more information which causes me to regret my decision to [honour Hunka]. I wish to make clear that no one, including fellow parliamentarians and the Ukraine delegation, was aware of my intention or of my remarks before I delivered them’, Rota said.
‘I particularly want to extend my deepest apologies to Jewish communities in Canada and around the world’, he added.”
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre accused Trudeau of being responsible, and called for him to apologize.
Sputnik reported:
“Canadian opposition leader Pierre Poilievre demanded a personal apology from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for inviting and honoring Ukrainian Nazi veteran Yaroslav Hunka, who fought in the ranks of the 14th SS Division during the Second World War, to a parliamentary meeting on Friday.
[…] “No parliamentarians (other than Justin Trudeau) had the opportunity to vet this individual’s past before he was introduced and honoured on the floor of the House of Commons. Without warning or context, it was impossible for any parliamentarian in the room (other than Mr. Trudeau) to know of this dark past. Mr. Trudeau must personally apologize and avoid passing the blame to others as he always does,” Poilievre said on X, formerly known as Twitter.”
How many monuments to commie mass murderers in Russia?
Thousands? Tens of thousands?
You're either being ignorant or dishonest about the commie problem in Russia.
Nazi vs. Commie border dispute hmmm...seems like a rational foreign policy would sit this one out. But we all know why the deep state ignores issues here to throw billions into an untraceable black hole.
You bet, all this started last February.
Yeah, I noticed that, but I think you should have worded it: "Check out all the Nazi Zeepers rushing to the defense of Justine Turdeau..."
It's a better fit.
Agree.
Why aren't you trying to stop the same kind of murders of civilians today? You aren't. What is your excuse?
Only twisted pro Russian propagandists would try to claim that President Zelensky, the descendant of the only surviving member of a Jewish family that were victims of the Holocaust, is somehow a Nazi or a Nazi sympathizer.
This kind of propaganda gets pushed out when the Russian military is really in trouble. It must be true that many top officers got killed in the recent Ukrainian attacks.
Please stop. I don’t care who wins. We have no reason to be involved.
If you actually believe that Ukrainians viewed the Waffen SS as liberators instead of the evil filth they were, proves those of us who have recognized the Azov Brigade in the Ukraine as Neo-NAZI's have been right all along.
Youkes and Ruzzziiiaans have been torturing and murdering each other for a long, long time. The country you adore is one of the most corrupt in Eastern Europe. It is a center for child trafficking, organ harvesting, horribly corrupt government officials, neo-Nazi militias and money laundering operations, all being headed by a gay-dancing actor and puppet of the NWO. It, and its Ruzzziiiannn neighbor, have long histories of depraved behaviors towards each other. Both pits are filled with people whose souls - and cultures - were wrecked by 80 years of communism.
Why are you so madly in love with Youcrayne? Why do you and your fellow Youcrayniacs jump through hoops and barrels to twist words, insult people, post walls of blood money-generating propaganda and lie your asses off on this forum to defend such a sick, broken place? What is your excuse for loving it so much and wanting to defend it at any cost, including spending American taxpayers' money to pay government salaries and pensions there?
Not out circus. Not one more penny of US money or a single bullet must be sent there.
I have to laugh at all those leftist media outlets calling the Ukraine “far-right” (pre-Feb 2022) and the like. Given that it’s the far-left globalists (including the Plugs the Pedo DC regime) that want to bail out the Ukraine and its evil degenerate pervert dictator, it makes it all the more absurd.
You're nothing more than a keyboard pimp; you can shove off.
You know that the Russians have killed millions of Ukrainians since 1900, don't you?
I studied extensively the history of WW II and never knew that thanks for the history lesson all the history I’ve read that Stalin was a great guy I wonder how he let that happen
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