The Yaroslave Hunca Affair: Canadian Leadership Dumbness Attains a New Extreme

On the occasion of the Ukrainian President's attendance at the Parliament in Ottawa, the speaker of the House, Anthony Rota, drew attention to the presence in the Gallery of Yaroslav Hunka, who he described as:

A Ukrainian Canadian veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians ... and continues to support the troops toeday even at his age of 98. ...

In response to which statement, the members of the house gave Mr. Hunca a standing ovation. This, however, led to embarrassment when it became known that Mr. Hunca had fought not with Ukrainian forces but with the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), a military formation of Nazi Germany with a record for war crimes and atrocities.

Referring to this perceived embarrassment, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in the house "how deeply sorry Canada is (for) this egregious error."

Bur in fact the error was far more egregious and ridiculous than Trudeau acknowledged, or probably even now understands. That is because: first, Yaroslav Hunca was neither by birth nor upbringing a Ukrainian, but a a citizen of Galicia, a region then part of Poland; and second, because Hunca fought not for Ukraine but as a Galician seeking to reverse the incorporation of his homeland into the Soviet Republic of Ukraine.

According to Hunca's memoire, the Soviet occupation of Galicia was brutal, with many who failed to cooperate with the Soviet authorities being exiled to Siberia. It was out of hatred for the occupation of his homeland and its enforced incorporation into the Ukrainian Soviet Republic that led Hunca to join with German forces engaged against the Soviets. 

Thus, Yaroslav Hunca was a brave lad who fought for the independence of his homeland against its incorporation into Communist Ukraine. 

In the context of Justin Trudeau's embarrassment over the Hunca affair, what is most interesting is the parallel between Hunca's membership in a Nazi military formation, and Canada's 16-billion-dollar and rising investment in Ukraine's war with Russia, notwithstanding the existence of multiple Nazi formations within the Ukrainian military. 

But then ignorance and humbug are what we have come to expect f'rom Canada's low IQ ruling elite.