#Yaroslav Hunka

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By Lev Golinkin

The Canadian Parliament gave a standing ovation on Friday to a 98-year-old immigrant from Ukraine who fought in a Third Reich military formation accused of war crimes. The elderly veteran, Yaroslav Hunka was honored during a session in which President Volodomyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine addressed the lawmakers to thank them for their support since Russia invaded his country, saying Canada has always been on “the bright side of history.” The  Speaker of the House of Commons, Anthony Rota — who had compared Zelenskyy to Winston Churchill — recognized a “veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians and continues to support the troops today even at his age of 98.”  The assembly then rose to applaud a man in a khaki uniform standing on the balcony, who saluted, according to this screenshot from Canadian television. 

The man was identified as Hunka by the Associated Press, which published a photograph showing Zelenskyy smiling and raising a fist during the ovation.

The AP caption described Hunka as having “fought with the First Ukrainian Division in World War II before later immigrating to Canada.” The First Ukrainian Division is another name for the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, the military wing of the Nazi Party; the unit was also called SS Galichina. This is the same unit that is honored by controversial monuments in Canada, Australia, and, as the Forward recently exposed, the suburbs of Philadelphia and Detroit. Jewish groups have called for their removal. After a Forward article in August that was followed by coverage in the Philadelphia Inquirer, local television stations and other news outlets, the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia temporarily covered the monument located in a cemetery in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, pending discussions with local Jewish leaders. The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and regional branches of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League had expressed outrage about the monument. Formed in 1943, SS Galichina was composed of recruits from the Galicia region in western Ukraine. The unit was armed and trained by the Nazis and commanded by German officers. In 1944, the division was visited by SS head Heinrich Himmler, who spoke of the soldiers’ willingness to slaughter Poles.”  Three months earlier, SS Galichina subunits perpetrated what is known as the Huta Pieniacka massacre, burning 500 to 1,000 Polish villagers alive. 

There is more to the article. Read it. We should be hearing more about this over the next few days.

And according to this article, Canada also imported 2,000 of Hunka's SS Nazi friends at the end of WWII to live out the rest of their lives in comfort, untroubled by the atrocities they committed.

#ss #14th waffen grenadier division #nazis #yaroslav hunka #ukrainians #ukraine

[socialistsephardi]

Canadian parliament gave a standing ovation to a literal nazi and Zelenskyy fucking clapped with them

#canpol #Canada #volodymyr zelenskyy #yaroslav hunka

[immaculatasknight]

Canada's closet Nazis

#Canada #NaziGate #scandal #Yaroslav Hunka #Ukraine #Waffen SS #Galician #war crimes #extradition #prosecution #Russia #Poland #whitewashing

[thenewsfeed]

#nazigate #yaroslav hunka

[dataanxiety]

Why was that Nazi honored in Ottawa?

No one seems to be able to figure out how it happened. A bona fide Nazi was honored with two standing ovations in Canadian parliament last week. He was a real Nazi, not a neo-Nazi, nor a Canadian trucker, not a Trump supporter, nor even a moderate conservative.

This guy was 98 years old and served in the all-volunteer SS 14th Waffen Division also known as 1st Galicia. They were Ukrainian collaborators between 1943 and 1945 when Ukraine was occupied by Nazi Germany. They murdered a lot of Poles, Jews, and Slovaks. They swore allegiance to moustache man.

Various Canadians say that it wasn't Trudeau's fault, as the prime minister reports to the House of Commons, i.e. the Canadian Parliament. This guy, the former Chief of Protocol said the speaker has "supreme power" to choose who attends and is honored by Parliament, not "the government":

"The Speaker doesn't report to the Prime Minister's Office. While Rota is a Liberal MP, the Speaker is elected by all members of the House. A spokesperson for the Speaker said Rota did not share his list of invitees with the Prime Minister's Office or any of the opposition parties before Friday's event...the list of potential guests was shared with Parliament's Protocol Office, which co-ordinates the sending of invitations."

Next question, then, is how does the speaker "vet" people who are selected for honoring and presentation to foreign dignitaries, in this case Zelenskyy?

"Process to vet people by speaker's office is totally opaque."

The former chief of protocol guy seems to think that such opacity is totally okay. He says there is a Parliamentary Protective Services group who does security checks but those are to make sure the person doesn't have outstanding warrants for, say, burglary or rape. Protocol guy said that a Google search on the person's name is probably done.

That doesn't seem to be too effective as a method of vetting! Even I found the Nazi guy's name all over the Internet because he wrote lots of posts on Blogger and elsewhere, for the past 10+ years, about how much he enjoyed his time in the SS 14th Waffen Division. He even has a private Facebook group for Canadian veterans of SS 1st Galicians.

This is what a very upset Canadian opposition party member, who was a former speaker of Parliament said:

"Rota's statement doesn't answer the questions around how this person was allowed to be in the chamber. A straightforward Google search will show he served in this particular division. If basic, rudimentary vetting as to who might be in the gallery isn't done — that's remarkable."

So, it isn't Trudeau's job, it isn't Parliament's job, and it isn't the job of the Canadian government's security service who does background checks for guests of Parliament.

Here's a video from the CBC (Canada's public broadcaster, I think) of the event. I took two screenshots to encourage clicking and viewing below. No one ever clicks on links!

At least he remembered not to Sieg Heil.

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Canadian Jews demand the expulsion of Ukrainian Nazi veteran

Following the resignation of the Parliament speaker over the invitation of a former Ukrainian man who was found to have served under Nazi command, a Jewish group is calling on Canada’s PM to expel a 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka from the country he allegedly entered illegally.

The resignation of Canadian House of Commons speaker Anthony Rota came a day after he invited and honoured a Ukrainian, who had fought alongside the Nazis, at a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. However, members of the Canadian Jewish community are calling for additional measures.

Meir Weinstein, CEO of Israel Now:

“No, no, it’s not enough at all. Not only that but the speaker who I guess you could refer to right now as the former speaker of the House, personally invited this Nazi war criminal, SS collaborator from the Ukraine to the House of Commons to be given an honor… There’s a lot to uncover here and unpack. It’s horrific.”

Learn more HERE

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Canada's Anthony Rota regrets praising World War II veteran Yaroslav Hunka

Anthony Rota, 62, of Canada regrets his decision to praise Yaroslav Hunka, 98. The latter is a Canadian citizen of Ukrainian descent. Currently, Rota lives in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. Born in North Bay, Rota earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, a diploma in finance from Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario and a master’s degree in…

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Linke und das Rabbinat feiern Nazi Heldentat.

Gelegentlich lesen Sie in unseren Essays über die erstaunliche Kooperation, die zwischen Zionisten und dem Dritten Reich stattfand. Darin versuchen wir auch die Hintergründe und Rationale dieser haarsträubenden – überwiegend wirtschaftlichen – Symbiose verständlich zu machen.Was die meisten nie begriffen haben, ist der brutale Zynismus, die Arroganz und beispiellos Rücksichtslosigkeit der Leviten…

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[gamer2002]

Regarding Yaroslav Hunka

Stupid Canadian gaffe, to say the least. They probably wanted to bring an old Ukrainian vet and didn't check if he was an SS-man. I doubt Canadian politicians would knowingly applause an SS-man, so I doubt they told Zelensky about his past.

SS is a recognized criminal organization, although Hunka's division has not been found guilty of any specific war crime. Estonian SS divisions, who only had fought Red Army, have been recognized as not criminal organizations. Nobody should hold it against Hunka if he did join SS just to fight Soviets.

However, his division has at least enabled massacres of Poles in Ukraine. I don't know if Hunka has been a member at the time, but he should speak against war crimes committed against civilian populations. Canadians also should apologize to Poles, not just Jews, and so should Zelensky.

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During Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Canada last Friday, House Speaker Anthony Rota introduced Hunka as a Canadian-Ukrainian war hero, prompting a standing ovation from parliamentarians.[...]

In a letter to Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance, a body that researches and investigates past crimes against the Polish nation, Czarnek asked it to “urgently examine” whether Hunka is wanted for crimes against Polish people of Jewish origin, adding that “signs of such crimes are grounds to apply to Canada for his extradition.” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told media the situation was “extremely upsetting” and “deeply embarrassing” for Canada.

26 Sep 23

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Now that Canadian parliament has ignited an international conversation about the dark side of Ukrainian nationalism by giving a standing ovation to Waffen-SS veteran Yaroslav Hunka, it might be worth revisiting the role Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s grandfather played in recruiting young men like Hunka to the Nazi cause.

During Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s September 22 House of Commons visit, Freeland was one of hundreds of parliamentarians who stood to applaud after now-former speaker of the house Anthony Rota announced the presence of a “Ninety-eight-year-old Ukrainian Canadian who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians during the Second World War.”

The ensuing controversy must have created a sense of déjà vu for Freeland, who is long overdue for setting the record straight about the nationalist hagiography she’s constructed around her Ukrainian nationalist forebear — if only the media would ask her about it.

Michael Chomiak, Freeland’s maternal grandfather whom she’s repeatedly cited as a political inspiration, edited a Nazi newspaper for Ukrainian exiles in occupied Krakow called Krakivski Visti, which was printed on a press seized from a Jewish owner. [...]

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No statute of limitations

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Politico defending LITERAL WWII Nazis.

Politico seriously suggests there is "nuance" around Yaroslav Hunka's joining of the Nazi 14th Waffen SS Grenadier Division (1st Galicia) to fight the Soviet Union and, like Canadian commentators over the last few days, suggests no war crimes were committed by this Division.

That's COMPLETE AND UTTER LUNACY.

The Nazi Germany 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS was NOTORIOUS for SLAUGHTERING their way through Ukraine, enthusiastically participating in the genocide of Poles, Roma, Jews, and Socialists/Communists

These people are manipulating history and your ignorance of it to make Nazis go from black and white obvious evil, to shades of grey in which you're not "expert" enough to have an opinion on, thereby weakening efforts to expose fascist ideology being integrated into Western society.

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The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons resigned Tuesday for inviting a man who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II to Parliament to attend a speech by the Ukrainian president.

Just after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered an address in the House of Commons on Friday, Canadian lawmakers gave 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka a standing ovation when Speaker Anthony Rota drew attention to him. Rota introduced Hunka as a war hero who fought for the First Ukrainian Division.

Observers over the weekend began to publicize the fact that the First Ukrainian Division also was known as the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, or the SS 14th Waffen Division, a voluntary unit that was under the command of the Nazis.

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Poland to seek extradition of Ukrainian Nazi veteran Hunka

On Tuesday, Poland’s Education Minister Przemyslaw Czarnek issued a statement saying he had “taken steps” to extradite Jaroslaw Hunka, a 98-year-old veteran of Ukrainian Nazi who was honoured by Canadian parliamentarians last week, according to Politico.

On Friday, House Speaker Anthony Rota introduced Hanka as a hero of the Canada-Ukraine war, prompting a standing ovation from parliamentarians.

However, Jewish organisations, human rights groups and leaders around the world have criticised the parliament’s gesture. Hunka fought in the First Ukrainian Division, also known as the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division, which served under Nazi command in Adolf Hitler’s World War II against the Red Army.

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