You oughta know (but do you?): Phoebe Maltz Bovy reminds that the Second World War is a thing that happened [Video]

Honestly, the whole thing is a bit unfair. I have barely been Canadian for five minutes and now I need to figure out what exactly is going on in the Canadian Parliament. We—we! I’m Canadian!—are inviting Nazis to our government meetings now?

Yes, as this publication’s coverage from the past week may have alerted you, the Canadian Parliament—including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with a guest appearance by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, recently gave a hero’s welcome to a 98-year-old (ex-?) Nazi. A sort of epic memo-missing led a room full of political leaders to applaud someone they thought of as representing Ukraine’s righteous struggle against Russian invasion, but who, well… history’s complicated. Who fought the Soviet Union in the Second World War? Anyone? Anyone? (In “Bueller, Bueller” voice.)

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