@NorthBayToday@NBRHC Martin, not Yaroslav, was the board member and donor. Martin did not fight in WWII. He has served this community & deserves recognition for that.
The foundation should return all of the $$ that Martin & Theresa donated. Other donors should demand that their $$ be returned too.
While the clueless, willfully-ignorant, wittingly or unwittingly pro-kremlin voices misinterpret, falsify & manipulate history, russians are going full fascist. THIS IS HAPPENING NOW!
Everyone who posted about #Hunka, point me to where you expressed your righteous anger about war crimes happened in real time!
If you can’t or you won’t, than feel free to proceed in the direction of the russian flagship Moskva.
It knew where to go, and you know it too
@nilikm@petermansbridge@bruceanderson @SXMCanadaTalks @HoCSpeaker@JustinTrudeau Polish & Ukr underground armies & escaping Polish Jews. My Baba & Gido and their kids were some of a small number of villagers to survive.
Many Ukr men faced certain death at the hands of the RA. They shouldn’t be applauded for joining the SS, but should be judged with empathy.
@nilikm@petermansbridge@bruceanderson @SXMCanadaTalks @HoCSpeaker@JustinTrudeau My grandparents were teens in Polish occupied Ukraine when WWII started. The Red Army took my Baba’s brothers away & executed them in Siberia. Her sister, BIL, and their kids were murdered by the RA for providing medical care to soldiers from the…
@Yd__Te@CarymaRules And assuming a person holds the same beliefs as others in a group is an example of prejudice and stereotyping.
Nazis are bad. They did horrific things. But the Deschenes Commission stated, after a 2 yr investigation, that the immigrants to Canada were not guilty of war crimes.
@Mark_Goldberg Wish I didn’t have to. I’m not ashamed of my beliefs. But my community is small. And I’ve experienced harassment.
I’m not supporting the ties this man has to Nazis. But his endowment fund supported students who are now impacted by this.
I just think we need to be objective…
@nilikm@petermansbridge@bruceanderson @SXMCanadaTalks @HoCSpeaker@JustinTrudeau He was a teen living in a war zone. Soviets were brutalizing his people. There had just been a genocide of Ukrainians and other Slavs through starvation. He had to make a hard choice. It may have been the wrong one, but life was complicated and hard.
@norlowsky @UAlberta@gregbradyTO@AlexpiersonAMP@Mark_Goldberg I’m sure that the students who benefited from this fund are thrilled about this.
The scholarships supported students studying the history of the underground church and Metropolitans Sheptysky & Slipyj.
What a self-centred thing to do.
@OntarioNative @merry123459 Or that we don’t know if he was adequately educated or emotionally mature enough to make a rational, informed decision to join the Galicia Division.
@Warped05247386@gill_godwin@CBCNews@CTVNews@globalnews That is not a monument for the Galician division, but the first division of the Ukrainian National Army. They fought for Ukrainian independence against Soviet Russia
@Miralek Are you sure he was a Banderite?
Are you are referring to his hatred towards Russia? Because that was very well founded. The Soviets were as brutal as the Nazis.