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Collision Resistance@lemm.ee to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago

Head of Canadian Ukrainian group defends man who fought for unit created by Nazis

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Head of Canadian Ukrainian group defends man who fought for unit created by Nazis

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The president of the Ukrainian National Federation of Canada is defending Yaroslav Hunka who was recently lauded as a hero in Canada’s Parliament
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        Also an extremely inaccurate comparison because SS units like Galicia were volunteer only but Fascist Italy conscripted men of fighting age into their army. I refuse to believe that a professor doesn’t understand the difference between being compelled to serve and volunteering to serve, so I must conclude he’s saying this shit deliberately to mislead.

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          Would you be surprised if I told you that the good professor has Ukrainian heritage?

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            I don’t want to imply that anyone with a certain heritage is inherently sympathetic to a specific ideology, but I would not be surprised if he had Ukrainian gusanos as ancestors.

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            To be honest, Ivan Katchanovski is also Ukrainian-Canadian professor and he has been actively protesting all this Nazi shit for a long time. Of course, Western MSM ignore him and boost open Nazis.

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              Of course, Western MSM ignore him and boost open Nazis.

              Yeah, funny how that works.

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              If he isn’t careful with how vociferous he is, he may become the next Norman Finkelstein and blackballed by academia. Your identity can only protect you for so long if you rail against zionism/ukrofascism too hard and draw too much attention to the issue.

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        we deal with the same thing in australia, it’s fucked, and a lot of their descendants have kept their nazi proclivities

        check this for example

        Australian Croatian Club back in the spotlight after portrait of WWII fascist Ante Pavelić inadvertantly included in soccer team photograph

        inadvertently doing a lot of heavy lifting here

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        “You are mad about our Ukrainian fascists, but have you thought that we have Italian fascists too?”

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          Seriously

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      Klufas blames the branding of Hunka as a Nazi on “Russian disinformation,” adding, “the fact that he was a soldier does not mean that he was a Nazi.” He also said there was nothing wrong with Parliament applauding a man “who fought for his country.”

      Can we applaud Russian soldiers then?

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        the fact that he was a soldier does not mean that he was a Nazi

        WTF. This is trying to apply the clean Wehrmacht myth on Waffen-SS volunteers. That the professor is saying only members of the NSDAP were Nazis is something that would be crossed out as wrong due to reduction in any homework you have to write at school or uni over here.

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          White people coming out as big fans of Nazis after decades of pretending to hate them might be the biggest outcome of this war.

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              They weren’t hurting the right people

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              Most of western europe immediately collapsed into nazi-sympathizer comprador regimes without much resistance, almost like a large portion of the population secretly wanted it to happen. Vichy cucks and quislings.

              Partisans who fought the occupiers are the only cool people in those nazi-occupied countries.

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                The first battle Americans fought on the ground in WWII was against French troop fighting for the nazis in Africa IIRC

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        Everything that is politically inconvenient for our ruling hegemony in this moment is Russian disinformation at worst, Soros funded as a middle ground, and Chinese propaganda at best. You don’t even have to justify or prove it. Just claim it and it becomes as real as the ground under your feet.

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      In the fucking SS

      “not a nazi”

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        He’s only a real Nazi if he comes from the Nazi region of Germany, otherwise he’s a sparkling fascist

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      Normal response: “The SS guy who slaughtered poles was a Nazi.”

      Liberal response: “well, ackshually, we have to first consider Plato’s dialogues. For example,”

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        Liberal trend in 2023 - mental gymnastics to defend Nazis.

        Liberal trend in 2024 - mental gymnastics to defend being Nazis themselves

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          Askshually sweaty I’m not german so I can’t be a nazi smuglord

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        going back in time to 2017 to tell all the libs that they’re gonna become the Charlottesville tiki torch guys to own Putin.

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          Yep. And not just the GOP and their tiki-torch-weilding fans, either. The fascism is fucking deeply rooted in U.S. politics, and always has been.

          ecological and economic catastrophes in the future that liberalism is wholly unsuited to deal with…they’re getting everybody else ready intellectually and emotionally for why that’s gonna be okay when it happens why they’re not really people…when we’re putting all this money into more walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away and so that we can watch them die with clear conscience

          This is what liberals (Democrats in particular) really mean when they say they want to “treat climate change like a national security issue”. People are suckered into thinking it just means they are going to take it seriously and prioritize it. No. It’s the same sense in which they have always used the term “national security”. It literally means they are going to crack down harder on immigration, make sure that capitalist enterprises close to the security state profit like crazy (e.g. securing them the Arctic trade routes), shoot “looters” when they are just trying to survive after climate disasters, crack down on the climate movement as it demands systemic change, etc. Aviva Chomsky did a really good talk a couple years ago about immigration and went into this very clearly.

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      Could you imagine this treatment for ISIS? “Well, he volunteered to join ISIS but we don’t know if he specifically did any crimes and you could see why am Iraqi would join ISIS to fight against Americam occupation. Anyway, ISIS beheaded a ton of people lol.”

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      This shit is why liberal inteligencia are a disease. They serve the purpose of defending fascism. No western academia is free of this shit. I know this is Canada and not the EU, but this is why the entire “progressive” smiling liberals and socdems are so fucking evil. They are the moderate wing of fascism STILL

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    “He fought for an unit created by a nazi”.

    He WAS a Nazi. In the Waffen SS. Which he joined voluntarily.

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      He WAS IS a Nazi.

      If he was a changed person, he would not have been there.

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      Adolf Hitler was an Austrian veteran and public speaker. He passed away in 1945.

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        austrian veteran and public speaker who made great strides against the spread of authoritarian russian communism

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      Yaroslav Hunka (1925–)

      Inshallah they will need to update this to say “(1925-2023)”

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        Poland, press the button

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          Assassinating Canadians

          Poland solidarity India

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    dissolve your govt canada no balls you won’t

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    Great scott, these readings are off-scale! hitler-detector

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    I hate how in the 21st century, nazism has become so popular that if you announce to normies that you disagree with nazis, at best you will be lectured on how you’re being a contrarian, and most likely you will be accused of being one of the BAD authoritarians…because you dislike the GOOD authoritarians.

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      It is certainly automatic on many parts of, uh, certain websites that you’ll get responses to the effect of “the communists killed way more” and “at least the Nazis didn’t kill their own people”.

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        Accepting Nazi framing of communists, German Jews and homosexuals as ‘not their own people’ to own tankies.

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      Dibs on being the twink Jew.

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    Paywall

    ohnoes

    Can you copypasta please comrade

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    cope

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    created by

    Gotta make it as passive as possible. Makes it sound like Volkswagon today and not something that was at that moment created with the clean purpose of recruiting fascists

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    I wonder what they think of a certain community center bombing back in 1949

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      Do you happen to remember the name of the community center, or have an article handy? I remember reading about that occurring but i cant find anything that references it anymore.

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        Was in 1950, but here ya go.

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        https://peacemagazine.org/archive/v38n3p38.htm

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