Volodin called on the Prime Minister of Canada to resign

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin called on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign after the scandal surrounding the honoring of veteran of the SS Galicia division Yaroslav Hunka (Gunko), who was invited to the Canadian Parliament on September 22. Volodin about this wrote in your Telegram channel.

“The Canadian Prime Minister refused to apologize. “We were just clapping our hands,” he says. Trudeau must resign and be held accountable for the rehabilitation and promotion of Nazism. Zelensky, a disgrace to the Jewish people, must go along with him,” he wrote.

Volodin noted that Trudeau, along with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, “hid behind the back of the Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada,” Anthony Roth, who invited Hunka to parliament, apologized for this and has already resigned. Meanwhile, by taking part in honoring the SS veteran, both Trudeau and Zelensky “once again showed disrespect, insulting the memory of the millions who died at the hands of the Nazis and were tortured in fascist camps during the Second World War, and demonstrated disdain for the genocide of the Jewish, Polish and Russian peoples.” , Volodin added and called for stopping the revival of Nazism.

On September 22, 98-year-old Hunka was present at a meeting of the Canadian Parliament with the participation of Zelensky, he was presented as a war hero who fought for the First Ukrainian Division. Later, Speaker of the House of Commons Rota, who invited him, 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.

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.”

After the incident, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Arkadiusz Mularczyk demanded Rota’s resignation. He recalled that Waffen-SS soldiers were representatives of “the most criminal German units” and committed mass brutal murders, primarily of Poles and Jews. They are also known for crimes against Belarusians and Slovaks. On September 26 it became known that Rota will leave resign as Speaker of the House of Commons. At the same time, members of the Canadian Parliament spoke condemning Nazism in all its manifestations.