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[Updated on October 4, 2023 at 9:19 AM ET.]

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It should be no surprise that the Canadian parliament was misled into applauding an old Nazi and former member of the Waffen SS Galizien in Ukraine during the second world war. Yaroslav Hunka served in the 14th SS Volunteer Division “Galicia”, which was made up of Ukrainian nationalists. At the end of the war, these “volunteers” who fought with Hitler’s army and collaborated in massacres committed on Ukrainian soil during the Second World War, were not extradited to the Soviet Union but like Hunka were able to emigrate to Canada while many others escaped to the UK and through the Vatican’s “Rat Lines” to South America.

Poland, whose citizens were victims of the Galicia division (they have been demanding but not getting an apology from Ukraine for the Wolyn massacre) attacked Canada and demanded the extradition of Hunka. The Speaker of the Canadian parliament later apologized and resigned, while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admitted the scandal but did not resign and managed to blame Russia!

All this is no surprise when we know that the Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland herself is the granddaughter of a notorious Nazi and she associates with Ukrainian extremist groups in Canada.

Her grandfather Mikhail Chomiak, who emigrated to northern Alberta after fleeing to Vienna in late 1944 was a  Jew-hating Nazi and editor of the fascist Ukrainian newspaper based in Poland Krakivski Visti which operated under the notorious rule of Hans Frank (executed after the war). Expropriated from a Jewish owner under Nazi law, Krakivski Visti published an editorial on 6th November 1941 which said:

“There is not a single Jew left in Kiev today, while there were 350,000 under the Bolsheviks, the Jews “got their comeuppance.” 

This referred to the mass shooting of Kiev’s Jewish population at Babi Yar. In just two days, Sept. 29-30, 1941, a total of 33,771 people were murdered.

Today there are issued in Ukraine, stamps celebrating the foundation of the Waffen SS Division “Galicia”. This illustration shows some of the “heroes” of Galicia and (centre) the celebration of the 75th anniversary of its foundation on the stamps.

Note how the uniforms resemble those of war time German Nazis – just as today Ukrainian troops and military vehicles carry old war time German insignia! One of them is a Greek-Catholic chaplain of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UNA) — the most violent pro-Hitler Banderite group.

Britain’s SS Galzien Memorials

Shamefully Britain took in many SS Galizien veterans after the war and in this video by Dr Mark Felton he describes some memorials to them, one recently created in Scotland, under the rule of the Nationalist socialist SNP!

Ukrainian Nazis Greeted in the West

One of the most overt and active Nazis in Ukraine is Andriy Parubiy, the former Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament. (See this)

Here Parubiy is feted by US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland: 

Parubiy was also received in the Canadian parliament by Trudeau, by the head of the  European Commission for Democracy Through Law (!!!) Gianni Buquicchio, by the American Policy Council, by the British Royal United Services Institute and by the late Senator John McCain.

Parubiy founded in 1991 the Social-National Party of Ukraine (subsequently renamed Svoboda [Freedom]), together with Oleh Tyanhnybok who currently heads the Svoboda party. The name Social-National Party was chosen with a view to replicating the name of Hitler’s Nazi (National Socialist) party.

Parubiy was ‘Commandant’ of the volunteer rebel forces together with Dmytro Yarosh (head of the Right Sector) and Oleh Tyanhnybok. These neo-Nazi insurgent forces were involved in the USA and Germany financed ‘Euromaidan’ coup d’etat in early 2014, which led to the overthrow of president Viktor Yanukovych. All three neo-Nazi leaders are followers of Ukraine’s Nazi Stepan Bandera, who collaborated in the mass murder of Jews and Poles during World War II but is celebrated today in Ukraine (both in civil demonstrations on his birthday and on the battlefield).

I have in previous posts shown a collage of western press coverage of Nazis in Ukrainian civil and military life but as we know that was before the Russian response (in February 2022) to Ukraine’s civil war against Russians. Since then the denial of Nazism has taken on grotesque and hilarious proportions – until a slight change recently.

Here we have two juxtaposed headlines from the war mongering, neocon New York Times who have been unable to keep up the Nazism-deniers’ narrative!

Religious Nazis in Ukraine — And British Collaboration

In Ukraine there is a small minority who belong to the “Uniate” Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church who have the orthodox rite but accept the authority of the Vatican. (I need hardly reiterate the close links between war time Croatian Nazis–“Ustashe”–and the Roman Catholic Church, with the Pope receiving them in the Vatican.)

A chaplain of that church has used a sermon to call on his parishioners to expel priests of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church from Ukraine.

In his sermon Nikolay Medinsky called the followers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church “spiritual occupiers” and enemies, and urged his flock to “expel them by their own hands, without waiting for the authorities or the army”.

And here is a video where another Uniate priest addresses the activists of Maidan saying that there can only be a “language of bullets” used against Russians. So that “no Jew, no Negro, no Chinese would dare to enter our home”:

This video has deliberately been made difficult to view (Youtube demands visual ID etc) but the above quote has been verified for me by a Ukrainian speaker.

Equally disturbing is the British collaboration with this Church: From the British Army website:

“As you read this, spare a thought for these men as by now they will be on their way back, some to the eastern and southern flanks of the frontlines to confront the Russian invaders. Before they left, they had a surprise visit by the Ukrainian Catholic Bishop to the United Kingdom, the Right Reverend Kenneth Nowakowski who conducted a field service in which he blessed all those about to return sprinkling them with holy water and then presenting each recruit with their own set of rosary beads.”

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church represents at most 14% of Ukrainians. I don’t think the Orthodox troops will have appreciated this.

How the British and Americans landed this time on the Nazi side of a war will be the subject of future articles on Freenations.

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