ER Editor: A reminder that Putin addressed head-on with Tucker the Yaroslav Hunka affair in the Canadian Parliament last week. TASS has picked up on Canada’s recent refusal to extradite the man. Hunka was tried in absentia for genocide of civilians and found guilty.
HOLY CRAP 🤯 VLADIMIR PUTIN just called out the ENTIRE CANADIAN Parliament on the Tucker Carlson interview for inviting & celebrating the SS Nazi veteran Yaroslav Hunka to Parliament pic.twitter.com/spcwDMIei6
— Melissa 🇨🇦 (@MelissaLMRogers) February 9, 2024
Again, we think it’s a movie. Putin talked about being willing to have a ceasefire in Ukraine with Tucker. Which has been rejected by the US as per Reuters. Of course they would, and the world is seeing these western refusals to reasonable requests. Notice the last line of the RT piece below.
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Canada refuses to extradite wanted Nazi
Ottawa has cited a technicality in rejecting Moscow’s request for Yaroslav Hunka
RT
The Canadian government has declined Russia’s warrant for SS veteran Yaroslav Hunka, citing the lack of an extradition treaty between the two countries, the Russian ambassador in Ottawa has confirmed.
Moscow had sent Ottawa an extradition request in December, based on charges against Hunka levied by the Russian Prosecutor-General’s Office. The 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian has publicly admitted volunteering to join the Waffen-SS Galicia Division during the Second World War, after he was honored with a standing ovation in the Canadian Parliament during last year’s visit by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
“It is unlikely that the absence of an extradition treaty can serve as a reason for refusal,” Ambassador Oleg Stepanov said on Tuesday, calling it “an obvious politically motivated excuse.”
Stepanov pointed out that Canada could have charged Hunka with war crimes for his activity in the SS, but seems to have chosen not to. If Hunka lied about being a member of the SS on his citizenship application – as he obviously seems to have – then Ottawa could at very least strip him of citizenship, he added.
“Here is the litmus test for Canada’s covering up of Nazism. Will the criminal be punished or will he continue to live out his comfortable retirement years in a country that is so proud of its legal standards?” Stepanov said.
Either way, Russia intends to “continue to seek justice” in the matter, said the ambassador.
Hunka was a guest of honor at the Canadian Parliament last September, and was introduced as “a Canadian hero” who “fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians” to thunderous applause. The incident was condemned by Russia, Poland, and the UN, while the Canadian opposition accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of lying about his role in the affair. House Speaker Anthony Rota took the blame for the incident and resigned.
In October 2023, Russia charged Hunka with genocide and issued a warrant for his arrest. Russian diplomats have pointed to the incident as proof of Nazi influence in Canada. President Vladimir Putin also brought up the affair in last week’s widely watched interview with American broadcaster Tucker Carlson.
The Galicia Division went from a volunteer Ukrainian SS division to a Waffen-SS grenadier division. They were accused of numerous war crimes against Jews, Poles and Soviet civilians. The division was shattered in the July 1944 Battle of Brody, but Nazi Germany rebuilt and used it to terrorize civilians in Slovakia and Yugoslavia.
In April 1945, the Third Reich handed the division over to the ‘Ukrainian National Committee’. Its surviving members surrendered to the British in Austria. About 8,000 of them were later given sanctuary in the British Commonwealth, and many ended up in Canada.
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Featured image, Zelensky & Trudeau: Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press
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