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| | [[File:Volodymyr Zelensky, Justin Trudeau, and Chrystia Freeland applaud Yaroslav Hunka of the Waffen SS Galicia Division during a session of the Canadian Parliament September 24 2023.PNG|right|300|thumb|[[Volodymyr Zelensky]], [[Justin_Trudeau#Support_for_Nazism|Justin Trudeau]], and [[Chrystia Freeland]] applaud Yaroslav Hunka of the [[Waffen SS Galicia Division]] during a session of the Canadian Parliament, September 24, 2023.]] | | [[File:Volodymyr Zelensky, Justin Trudeau, and Chrystia Freeland applaud Yaroslav Hunka of the Waffen SS Galicia Division during a session of the Canadian Parliament September 24 2023.PNG|right|300|thumb|[[Volodymyr Zelensky]], [[Justin_Trudeau#Support_for_Nazism|Justin Trudeau]], and [[Chrystia Freeland]] applaud Yaroslav Hunka of the [[Waffen SS Galicia Division]] during a session of the Canadian Parliament, September 24, 2023.]] |
| − | Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota welcomed a former officer of the [[14th Waffen SS Galicia Division]] named Yaroslav Hunka to attend an address by Ukrainian dictator [[Volodymyr Zelensky]]. Speaker Rota praised Hunka as a “Canadian hero” for fighting against the [[Soviet Union]], which was an ally of Canada, the United States, and the British Commonwealth during [[World War II]]. The [[Allies of World War II]], including Canada, fought the armed forces of the [[Third Reich]]. As an ally of the [[Nazi Germany]], Hunka and the [[14th SS Galicia Division]] were incorporated into the armed forces of Third Reich which fought against Canada, the Soviet Union and its allies. More than 45,000 Canadians were killed fighting Nazi forces. Hunta took part in numerous massacres of Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish and [[Slovak]] civilians. | + | Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota welcomed a former officer of the [[14th Waffen SS Galicia Division]] named Yaroslav Hunka to attend an address by Ukrainian dictator [[Volodymyr Zelensky]]. Speaker Rota praised Hunka as a “Canadian hero” for fighting against the [[Soviet Union]], which was an ally of Canada, the United States, and Great Britain during [[World War II]]. The [[Allies of World War II]], including Canada, fought the armed forces of the [[Third Reich]]. As an ally of the [[Nazi Germany]], Hunka and the [[14th SS Galicia Division]] took part in numerous massacres of Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish and [[Slovak]] civilians. More than 45,000 Canadians were killed fighting Nazi forces. |
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| | Former members of the 14th Galicia Division were still wanted in Ukraine, [[Poland]], [[Belarus]], [[Lithuania]], and the [[Russian Federation]] in 2023 for war crimes during the Second World War Nazi occupation. There is no [[statute of limitations]] for murder. Many Ukrainian Nazi war criminals fled [[Europe]] after World War II and were resettled and granted citizenship in the [[UK]], Canada, and the United States. After the German surrender to the Soviet Union in [[Berlin]] on [[Victory Day]], May 9, 1945, many of Ukrainian Nazis who did not flee Europe fought on against the Soviet Union until 1954, receiving covert aid from the [[CIA]] soon after the CIA's founding in 1947. | | Former members of the 14th Galicia Division were still wanted in Ukraine, [[Poland]], [[Belarus]], [[Lithuania]], and the [[Russian Federation]] in 2023 for war crimes during the Second World War Nazi occupation. There is no [[statute of limitations]] for murder. Many Ukrainian Nazi war criminals fled [[Europe]] after World War II and were resettled and granted citizenship in the [[UK]], Canada, and the United States. After the German surrender to the Soviet Union in [[Berlin]] on [[Victory Day]], May 9, 1945, many of Ukrainian Nazis who did not flee Europe fought on against the Soviet Union until 1954, receiving covert aid from the [[CIA]] soon after the CIA's founding in 1947. |