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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If you give a standing ovation to a nazi, you are a nazi.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He wasn't introduced as a nazi, none of those MP's knew the truth about who they were standing for, and they wouldn't have if they did. Somebody didn't do background research, and old nazi never should have been anywhere near parliament. It's incompetence all around.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

So did Finland though, and they ended WW2 fighting the Germans.

Although Finland was significantly less "gas the Jews" than Ukraine was.

[-] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Man was literally a part of the 1st Galician division of the SS

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago

Yeah he wasn't a nazi, he was a nazi ally

Not... much better, but could be worse?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

That's politics for you

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