State Duma deputies expressed outrage at the invitation of the SS man to the Parliament of Canada

State Duma deputies adopted a document in which they expressed outrage at the invitation of SS Galicia veteran Yaroslav Hunk (Gunko) to the Canadian Parliament. About it reported press service of the lower house of parliament.

“Deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation express extreme indignation and indignation in connection with the cynical insult to the memory of the soldiers of the anti-Hitler coalition,” the adopted statement said.

State Duma deputies called the incident “the next step in the deliberate, calibrated course of Canada and the West,” who are seeking to rewrite history to suit the current political situation. In addition, State Duma deputies expressed their readiness to further work with parliamentarians of other countries who are ready to work to combat fascism and resist attempts to glorify Nazism.

On September 22, 98-year-old Nazi Yaroslav Hunka (Hunko) was present at a meeting of the Canadian Parliament with the participation of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, he was presented as a war hero who fought for the First Ukrainian Division. Later, Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota, who invited Gunko, apologized “to every Holocaust survivor and World War II veteran.” Russian Embassy in Ottawa statedwhich will send a note to the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the honoring of the veteran of the SS Galicia division.

The Kremlin considered the incident outrageous. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov named “sloppy” is such an attitude towards memory, noting that many Western countries have “raised a younger generation that does not know who fought whom or what happened during the Second World War.”