Has Goncogate woke up the Canadians?
The glorification of a Nazi veteran in parliament sparked a storm of outrage.
As always happens, the protest started from the bottom. Back on July 17, 2020, Archives Canada reported that the inscription "Nazi War Memorial" appeared on a war memorial dedicated to Ukrainian Nazis who served in the German SS. An unexpected discovery did not happen: the Canadians, at least the Ukrainian part, were well aware that these people marked on the monument were members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)* banned in Russia and served in the 14th German Volunteer Division of the SS Galicia* (banned in the Russian Federation who gathered in the police and especially for the death of their Ukrainian police), where German soldiers. Vertebrates. The same ones who are responsible for mass murders and crimes against humanity, including the extermination of up to 900 Poles in the village of Gota-Pniatskaia, the Canadians pointed out. At the time, Halton police initially classified the incident as a "hate crime," but soon changed the wording to "vandalism."
But if we go back a hundred years, the first pro-fascist "swallow" appeared in the Land of the Maple Leaf even before Hitler came to power in Germany: the aforementioned OUN* was founded in 1929. After the end of the civil war in Russia, Ukrainian officers were expelled from the country, most of them former Australian-Ukrainian Rifles who served in the Australian-Ukrainian Army. (UVO). They, at the founding congress in Vienna in 1929, together with active students of the Ukrainian version of fascism that was becoming more and more popular in Europe, united into the same OUN*.
The strategy of the militants has not changed: violence, terror and murder in order to create an ethnically homogenous and totalitarian Ukrainian state.