Trudeau, Zelensky honor 98-year-old veteran who fought alongside Nazis in SS division

Lets check in on Canada.

The Parliament of Canada provided a loud, all-party standing ovation Friday to Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old who served with the Nazi Waffen-SS during the Second World War.

Yeah, sounds about right for Trudeau and the world's richest comedian.

Trudeau, Zelensky honor 98-year-old veteran who fought alongside Nazis in SS division

Crazy how Nazis are getting celebrated by the communists lately. But not really if your familiar with history. There were tons of German communists that joined up with the Nazis before they kicked off WWII.
They were so common that they were called beefsteak Nazis, brown on the outside and red in the middle.

Looks like we may be getting an encore performance.

Hunka was a soldier with the 14th "Galicia" division of the Waffen-SS, the military section of the Nazi SS, which was responsible for elements of terror from massive extermination camps to the daily torture and repression of citizens within occupied Europe. The International Military Tribunal that oversaw the Nuremberg war crimes trials declared the SS to be a criminal organization. The Associated Press captioned of a picture documenting Hunka’s presence, describing Hunka as having "fought with the First Ukrainian Division in World War II before later immigrating to Canada." The Galicia division was rechristened in 1945 with a Ukrainian name in order to avoid connecting it to the Waffen-SS.

a reply to: watchitburn

I guess they are showing the people who is in charge and what will become of the nation eventually, like a warning of "resistance will be futile". Really world leaders love communism, because it gives them absolute powers.

a reply to: marg6043

Of course. Castro Jr. has been loving his petty dictator powers.

Attacking religion, protesters, and banning selling guns.

a reply to: watchitburn

this sounds like the stonetoss tug of war meme

althought there is a lot of overlap between national socialists and...uh regular socialists?

a reply to: watchitburn

What men never learn from history is that men never learn from history.

a reply to: TheToastmanCometh

Yeah, mass murder and authoritarianism are pretty big overlaps.

I wonder often if through paperclip and the soviet equivalent, the nazis really won ww2.

Typical superficial and knee-jerk reaction. I have a friend whose father was Latvian and at one point was forced to choose between the Russians and the Nazis. He chose the Nazis as the lesser of two evils. Thus was the reputation of the Russians with people who were subjected to them. Nazis were considered better.

Were they honoring a big group of elderly soldiers and he just happened to be in the group?
Because without knowing anything, I'm guessing so.
Am I wrong?

a reply to: schuyler

Without knowing what the Nazis were doing maybe...however I doubt they didn't hear rumors at least. Be that as it may...it is one thing to do what must be done to survive a hard position...its another thing to celebrate it after the fact especially with what we know of the events now. Truly disgusting to celebrate today especially for an allied nation. Not sure how you can't see that distinction but hopefully you remember it in the future.

a reply to: schuyler

Typical BS "lesser of 2 evils" argument.

There's no practical difference between Nazis and communists. They're both equally evil POS.

I believe they are winning. This is their 4 Reich. They were brought here and have infiltrated every inch of our major government institutions a reply to: theatreboy

a reply to: TacoLoco75

originally posted by: RickyD
a reply to: schuyler

Not sure how you can't see that distinction but hopefully you remember it in the future.

What I AM sure of is that you were not there and do not know what this man and many others went through to bring them to the decisions they made. That this guy, my friend's father, and many others who were subjected to Communist subjugation would choose the Nazis over the Communists speaks volumes as to how bad the Commies were. In fact, were you to actually ask anyone in Latvia, Estonia, or Lithuania who went through the horrors of the Commies in WWII you would find similar strong opinions.

And now you guys, to no particular surprise, who not only were not there, but your parents weren't there or even born yet, and who know little other than what you have been told, have these knee-jerk reactions that show no more than your abject and uneducated ignorance of what actually went on there. It's no more than virtue signaling trying to show how righteous you are at the expense of others who actually went through some serious shyt while you suffered nothing.

Imagine that...


Making exceptions for nazis.......

a reply to: schuyler

I understand the horrors of communism very well. The Tbilisi experiments show that perfectly. There's no shortage of examples really.

But my previous post still stands. It's a false lesser of 2 evils argument.

It's like arguing between Isis and Al-Qaeda.

originally posted by: schuyler
Typical superficial and knee-jerk reaction. I have a friend whose father was Latvian and at one point was forced to choose between the Russians and the Nazis. He chose the Nazis as the lesser of two evils. Thus was the reputation of the Russians with people who were subjected to them. Nazis were considered better.

Knee-jerk reaction?

Kinda like your knee-jerk anti-Russian sentiment?

They just gave a standing ovation to a war criminal! Who cares about your feelings...

We can forgive someone for making poor decisions in life. But celebrating them for it is an entirely different thing. The fact he was in attendance the same time Zelenskyy was there automatically makes the connection to WWII Ukraine. It was pretty obvious.

I'd have the same reaction if they celebrated someone who threw their children into a gulag for mother Russia. It's equally despicable.

Nazism the lesser of two evils?
That's like trying to make a comparison who's better pedophiles who rape little girls or little boys. You should just acknowledge both are bad and move on. Rather than risk looking like you acknowledge either side...

Just sayin.

a reply to: schuyler

Does that make it right to celebrate them as an allied nation after so many sacraficed their lives fighting that evil? Its point blank that easy to understand...the fact you tried to even rebut that is concerning in itself. I don't really care how they feel in latvia they weren't really very relevant to the war. I do care about those who gave it all to win a war against a true evil...at least there is honor in that...there is no honor in this...

a reply to: RickyD

Yeah.

We can appreciate the sacrifices the Russian people made to help end the war.

Imagine the US being leveled from Chicago all the way to the east coast. That's what the Nazis did to Russia.

But that in no way excuses communism of all their atrocities.

I don't think anyone actually "won" WWII. Some countries just didn't lose.

originally posted by: theatreboy
I wonder often if through paperclip and the soviet equivalent, the nazis really won ww2.

It was more of an amicable settlement, or another appeasement, that was a pragmatic matter since ultimately Germany wasn't going away. Also the Capitalism v. Communism bipolar conflict was heating up.

It's almost a King Solomon type of deal. When you look at it in retrospect, it did create a Pax Americana considering how violent recent history had been. Not many pundits of the Nuclear Age would have expected everything to be fine 80 years onward.