Turns out a lot of Ukrainian nazis moved to Canada after the war and took root. Canada is now among very worst white supremacist countries and Canadians are among most active in online right-wing extremism, and even our foreign minister’s grandpa was a certified nazi.
The links you posted don’t surprise me. Ukrainian Canadians are especially bad in my experience. The diaspora groups try really hard to force themselves into schools and the public with parades and shit, spreading “Ukrainian pride,” which for some reason includes an outright warped sense of nationalism, and a severe hard-on for the Holodomor. Every year they say the same script verbatim, and bully young, impressionable Ukrainians into becoming their mouthpieces. Lost a lot of them growing up seeing them turn incredibly right-wing during high-school.
TL;DR:
“Being anti-Nazi is a hate crime :loudly crying face: :loudly crying face: :loudly crying face:”Calling a nazi war monument a nazi war monument is hate crime. Gotcha.
Just happens to be in a Ukrainian cemetery huh? Interesting.
But researcher Moss Robeson, who has written articles on Ukrainians who collaborated with the Nazis, provided details about the graffiti and the monument on Twitter, prompting questions about why Halton Regional Police think members of the Nazi SS can be the subject of hate crimes.
Seriously tho canada fought against the nazis in WW2 why would they let them build a nazi monument there.
“FreEdoM oF exPrEssIon”
“ThE gOvErnMent iSn’t ThR pEoPlE” (so the ppl can build)
Actual responses to your question that I’ve seen.
These people don’t believe in symbolic violence. A monument/name-calling/making a party is OK because it’s not “violence”.
And conveniently, as soon as a Lenin statue gets erected, they become the staunchest champions of exactly the opposite.
I explain a bit of the background here
This is very concerning because Canada still lives under the veneer of a “liberal, equal society”.
You can see how thin that veneer really is when you look at how Canada treats First Nations people. The recent pipeline protests are very illustrative in that regard.
