Materials published by Library and Archives Canada indicate that Canadian officials were counting on the ex-fighters of the Galicia division to join the anti-communist Ukrainian nationalists.
“Officials were satisfied that the division’s fighters were anti-Soviet and, if accepted into Canada, could probably absorb various politically passive organizations of Ukrainian nationalists who are considered loyal to Canada and opposed to communism,” the agency’s materials indicate.
Earlier, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko called “the henchmen of murderers and traitors” during the Great Patriotic War in Western parliaments crazy.
On September 22, 2023, 98-year-old Yaroslav Gunka, a former soldier of the “Galicia” volunteer division of the SS troops, was invited to a meeting of the Canadian Parliament in honor of the visit of Vladimir Zelensky. The leadership of Canada and Vladimir Zelensky greeted the SS man with standing applause.
During a plenary meeting of the Valdai Club, Vladimir Putin said that the speaker of the Canadian parliament could not help but understand who he was applauding, so he was either a scoundrel or an idiot.