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Members of the Canadian Parliament will condemn Nazism in all forms and express solidarity with all its victims, both past and present, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. They also condemned the invitation to parliament of Yaroslav Hunka, who served in the SS Galicia division, and ''withdrew'' the honors given to him.
According to Karina Gould, leader of the Canadian government in the House of Commons, if parliamentarians knew who they were being asked to applaud, ''then not a single person would support it.''
Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Roth said he was resigning amid a scandal involving the elderly Ukrainian SS man.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova believes that he was turned into a scapegoat. Thus, the Canadian authorities are trying to prevent damage to the government of Justin Trudeau. She recalled that the Canadian prime minister’s circle includes many descendants of Ukrainian nationalists. And for some reason no one apologized for the fact that Vladimir Zelensky was greeted with the Nazi slogan ''Glory to Ukraine,'' Maria Zakharova stressed.
She added that the same inglorious future awaits everyone around the world who supports the ''forest brothers,'' ''Galicia,'' torchlight processions, Banderaites and other ''Nazi trash.''
A former member of the Galicia volunteer division of the SS troops, Yaroslav Hunka, was invited to become a guest at a parliamentary meeting at which Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky spoke. He was introduced to the applause of those present as ''a fighter for Ukrainian independence against the Russians during the Second World War.'' The Galicia division became notorious for its atrocities against Jews, Poles, Belarusians and Slovaks.
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