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Justin Trudeau’s Nazi blind spot

27 September 2023

3:30 PM

27 September 2023

3:30 PM

Justin Trudeau’s government sees fascists everywhere, except when one is standing right under their nose. That’s the brilliant if bleak irony of the Canadian parliament’s standing ovation for Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old veteran of the Ukrainian military who, it turns out, fought under the Nazis in the Second World War.

It was an extraordinary sight, surely unprecedented in the modern West.

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