I remember hearing the statement "War makes for strange bedfellows". This is certainly the case here. I agree with the authors closing statement, "Perhaps the Hunka affair will serve as a catalyst for a long-overdue reckoning with how Canadian officials, in the name of anti-Communism, turned a blind eye to Nazi sympathies among eastern European nationalist émigrés, including our Ukrainian allies.
Freeland could show incredible courage and moral fortitude by leading this discussion, but doing so would require acknowledging that an important piece of her personal mythology is a lie."
Most of the Ukrainians fighting in the Red Army came from the eastern part of Ukraine. In 1922 Lenin attached parts of the Russian empire east of the Dnieper River to Ukraine. They were distinctly different than the hardcore Ukrainian nationalist types that inhabited western Ukraine. A 100 years later it seems Putin is in the process taking back those regions and reattaching them to Russia. This Ukraine-Russia conflict is a Slavic turf war that’s been going on for 150 years.
I remember hearing the statement "War makes for strange bedfellows". This is certainly the case here. I agree with the authors closing statement, "Perhaps the Hunka affair will serve as a catalyst for a long-overdue reckoning with how Canadian officials, in the name of anti-Communism, turned a blind eye to Nazi sympathies among eastern European nationalist émigrés, including our Ukrainian allies.
Freeland could show incredible courage and moral fortitude by leading this discussion, but doing so would require acknowledging that an important piece of her personal mythology is a lie."
Most of the Ukrainians fighting in the Red Army came from the eastern part of Ukraine. In 1922 Lenin attached parts of the Russian empire east of the Dnieper River to Ukraine. They were distinctly different than the hardcore Ukrainian nationalist types that inhabited western Ukraine. A 100 years later it seems Putin is in the process taking back those regions and reattaching them to Russia. This Ukraine-Russia conflict is a Slavic turf war that’s been going on for 150 years.