The monument was erected in the Canadian city of Oakville, it was dedicated to the participants in the battles of Brody in 1944 and has been in the cemetery since 1988, writes STRANA.ua.
Earlier, activists and journalists demanded that the monument be removed, and the mayor of the city, Rob Burton, claimed that he was disgusted to realize that such a monument existed in his city, the publication writes.
Allegedly, the issue of demolition of the monument became urgent after the scandal with the honoring of SS soldier Yaroslav Gunka in the Canadian Parliament.
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.