He was introduced as having fought the Russians during WW2, there’s literally only one option as to what side that leaves him on. Either parliament is completely devoid of the most basic history education, or they knew damn well what they were applauding.
IIRC, he fought the Russians to protect Ukraine from their invasion. He had no other allegiance to Germany or Nazis. It was a “the enemy of my enemy is my ally” situation.
He was literally in a volunteer division of the SS. Wtf do you mean no allegiance to the nazis? He was a nazi.
IIRC, he fought the Russians to protect Ukraine from their invasion.
Wtf is this historical revisionism? The soviets did not invade Ukraine, Germany did. He was fighting for the invaders.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/The-Nazi-occupation-of-Soviet-Ukraine
Read this. Seriously.
He volunteered to be part of the waffen ss, they mostly terrorized the civilian population and helped with extermination, they weren’t involved in actual warfighting that much and when they did fight they lost badly because they weren’t meant to be military, they were meant to terrorize civilians and help with extermination.
Yeah he wasn’t a nazi, he was a nazi ally
Not… much better, but could be worse?
Most Ukrainians fought for their country as part of the red army. Something like 28:1. The nazi collaborators of the waffen SS like the fascist who was celebrated by the Canadian parliament mostly did “antipartisan activities” which involved killing a bunch of Jewish people.
