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<h4>An Ominous Context of the Nazi Debacle in Canada</h4>
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A few days ago, I raised questions that stem from the standing
ovation for Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian veteran of the SS in the
Canadian parliament (see this). These questions deserve answers.
Here are some of them.<br>
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How is it that the background of this unrepented Nazi – he wrote
in blogs in 2010 and 2011 that the years spent under the SS
colours were the best years of his life – had become invisible to
those who arranged his invitation to the Canadian parliament? The
answer is the mainstream media presentation of the war as a
conflict between Good and Evil. Obviously, the Good cannot be
suspected of harbouring Nazi skeletons in the closet. If there is
no longer even a pretense of even-handedness in the covering of
the Ukraine war in Western media, there is no reason to expect a
politician to dare have a critical approach to anyone or anything
Ukrainian.<br>
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Thus, mainstream media ignore Nazi insignia on the uniforms of
certain units of the Ukrainian army. This Manichean view of the
essentially geopolitical conflict impede a clearer understanding
of and, more importantly, a diplomatic solution to the war in
Ukraine. The Ukrainian parliament eliminated a diplomatic solution
by means of a decision to ban negotiations with Russia. Without
formally doing as much, Western powers have cornered themselves
into a dead end: it is impossible to negotiate with Russia,
painted in much of the Western media as the Evil incarnate. Moral
indignation has replaced geopolitical rationality.<br>
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In presenting Hunka, the speaker of the Parliament in Ottawa said,<br>
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“We have here in the chamber today a Ukrainian Canadian war
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.”<br>
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Fighting against the Russians has become a supreme moral value.
The fact that Hunka had volunteered for the SS unit does not, in
the mainstream view in the West, invalidate his heroism in
“fighting against the Russians”. In today’s frenzied climate,
having fought in a SS unit pales in comparison with being blamed
as a “Putin’s apologist” for calling for an end of hostilities.<br>
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Moreover, continuing efforts have been made in Eastern Europe to
equate the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Monuments to Soviet
soldiers who had freed Eastern Europe from Nazism in 1944-45 have
been systematically removed and destroyed. Energies spent to
efface historical memory have borne fruit both in Europe and
elsewhere. East European diasporas in Canada, many of them tainted
with collaboration with Nazism, have erected monuments to Nazis,
who fought against the Soviet Union. While a monument to the
victims of communism was erected on the Parliament Hill, there
seem to be no plans to build a monument to the victims of fascism.
Less informed people may simply forget that Canada fought
alongside the Soviet Union against the fascists during the Second
World War.<br>
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This is not innocent ignorance but a result of consistent
whitewashing of fascist tendencies in the ethnic nationalism in
Eastern Europe. One of those who, since her young age, took part
in this whitewashing is Chrystia Freeland, deputy prime minister
of Canada, a powerful éminence grise and an unabashed Ukrainian
nationalist. She has so far been eloquently silent about the
scandal in the parliament. If the ovation for the Nazi had passed
without protest or controversy, this would have become a crucial
milestone on the path to rehabilitation of fascism.<br>
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This effort goes beyond exculpating Canada from having welcomed
hundreds of Nazis in the aftermath of the Second World War.
Zelensky said on the same occasion in the parliament, that Canada
should be proud to have always been “on the bright side of
history” (he probably meant “right” instead of “bright”, but this
hardly matters). On that sunny side of history, one apparently
finds offering safe haven to Nazis fleeing retribution for crimes
against humanity committed during the war.<br>
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All this concerns more than history. This rehabilitation opens the
way to wholesale scapegoating of ethnic, national, and religious
groups, even entire countries and their culture. Canceling
Tchaikovsky and Pushkin in the West dovetails with removing
Russian books from public libraries in Ukraine. Both are a grim
reminder of the banning of Jewish composers and the burning of
Jewish books in Germany in the 1930s. Demonization of “the other”,
practiced by the Europeans for centuries on their own continent
and in their colonies, is raising its head again. Hatred is
dressed up as moral indignation reflecting “progressive European
values”. The pretext, as in the past centuries, is impeccable: a
war against the Evil.<br>
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</i><i>Yakov M. Rabkin is Professor Emeritus of History at the
Université of Montréal. His publications include over 300
articles and a few books: Science between Superpowers, A Threat
from Within: a Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism, What is
Modern Israel?, Demodernization: A Future in the Past and
Judaïsme, islam et modernité. He did consulting work for, inter
alia, OECD, NATO, UNESCO and the World Bank. E-mail: <a
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Website: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
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<p>Read original here: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/ominous-context-nazi-debacle-canada/5834936"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.globalresearch.ca/ominous-context-nazi-debacle-canada/5834936</a><br>
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