The Office of the UN Secretary General opposed honoring the SS veteran in Canada

The UN opposes any honoring of people who participated in the activities of the Nazis during the Second World War, the official representative of the secretary general of the world organization, Stephane Dujarric, told reporters. This is how he commented on the honoring of the Ukrainian SS “Galicia” soldier Yaroslav Hunk (Gunko) in the Canadian Parliament.

“We are, of course, opposed to any honoring of people who actively participated in the activities of the Nazis during the Second World War,” – leads his words to RIA Novosti.

Dujarric also noted that the Speaker of the Canadian Parliament has already apologized for inviting the SS veteran.

On September 22, 98-year-old Gunko was invited to a meeting of the Canadian Parliament with the participation of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, presenting him as a war hero. Later, Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota, who invited Gunko, apologized “to every Holocaust survivor and World War II veteran.” The Russian Embassy in Ottawa announced that it would send a note to the Canadian Foreign Ministry because of the honoring of the veteran of the SS Galicia division.

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.”

An archive photo of a former member of the SS “Galicia” division, Yaroslav Hunk (Gunko), was published in his Telegram channel by the chairman of the Russian Military Historical Society, head of the Interdepartmental Commission on Education, Vladimir Medinsky. He also added that in May 1945, the remnants of the SS division surrendered to the British, and then settled in Canada.