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Yaroslav Hunka served in the
14th SS Volunteer Division "Galichina",
recruited from Ukrainian
volunteers and taking part in
World
War II on the side of
Germany in 1943-1945.
Canada's Jewish community was
outraged by the celebration of
the fascist in the Parliament.
"Hunka
served in the Second World War
as a member of the 14th Waffen
Grenadier Division of the SS,
according to the Friends of
Simon Wiesenthal Center, a
Jewish human rights group that
demanded and received an apology
from Rota."
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CBC News
The
Russian Embassy sent a note
of protest to the Canadian
Foreign Ministry and the office
of Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau.
"The Kremlin said it was
"outrageous" that a Ukrainian
man who served in one of Adolf
Hitler's Waffen SS units during
the Second World War had been
presented to Canada's Parliament
last week as a hero."
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CBC News
Poland and Belarus also demanded
an apology from the Canadian
authorities.
The representative of the UN
Secretary General, Stephane
Dujarric, said that the
organization opposes the
glorification of the Nazis.
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Canada parliamentary speaker to
quit after publicly praising
Nazi
Speaker of the Canadian House of
Commons Anthony Rota apologized
for inviting a
Ukrainian SS division
soldier to parliament. The
speaker had to quit his job. A
blast wave from a
Truth
Bomb threw the Speaker of
the Canada's Parliament from his
chair.
Canada's Prime Minister J.
Trudeau was also forced to
apologize for the incident.
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