Remember when Canada recently invited and old Ukrainian Nazi to its parliament where he was given praise? Well he slaughtered five hundred people. As we read in 360:
The trials of former Nazis go beyond ordinary trials and have deep symbolic significance. They demonstrate to their contemporaries the inevitability of punishment, from which neither illness nor old age can save them. How elderly Nazis were tried – in the material “360”.
The Investigative Committee brought charges in absentia against a Ukrainian Nazi who was honored in Canada
The Investigative Committee of Russia in absentia charged the Ukrainian nationalist Yaroslav Hunka (Gunko) with genocide of civilians during the Great Patriotic War. Representatives of the SS “Galicia”, including Hunka, pursuing the basic idea of Nazism, committed murders of residents of the occupied Lvov region of the Ukrainian SSR, caused serious harm to their health and created conditions designed for physical elimination.From February 23 to February 28, 1944, Hunka and his colleagues, carrying out the criminal orders of their commanders, killed at least 500 Soviet citizens in the village of Guta Penyatskaya. Among those killed were Jews and Poles. People were burned in residential buildings and churches, and also shot.
“These actions are a violation of the Convention on the Laws and Customs of War on Land (The Hague, October 18, 1907),” investigators emphasized.
Now law enforcement officers are deciding whether to put Hunka on the international wanted list and arrest him in absentia. The investigation also sent requests for legal assistance to Belarus, Canada and Poland.
It is worth recalling that at the end of September, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky visited the Canadian parliament. 98-year-old Hunka was also invited to the meeting. He was introduced as a “Ukrainian-Canadian World War II veteran who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians.” The audience applauded the elderly Nazi, but later a scandal broke out . Honoring the SS man caused a storm of indignation in Russia, Poland and other countries. The Speaker of the House of Commons, Anthony Rota, took responsibility for inviting Hunka to the Canadian Parliament and resigned.
Reminds me of when Zelensky gave the “Hero of Ukraine” award to Myrosław Symczycz, a veteran of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army who ordered the murder of Polish inhabitants of the village of Pistyń in the Kosovo district of the Stanisławów voivodship. At the same time, Symczycz threatened his troops with death if they showed mercy. Symczycz personally participated in the murder of the Iwanicki family. Symczycz is also credited with the raid on October 23, 1944 on the village of Trójca (Sniatyn County in Stanisławowski Province), about 10 km away from Pistyń, where the UPA killed 64 Poles, 14 Ukrainians and one Russian.