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?
I feel like there might be another way to say someone fought “against the Russians in the Second World War.” pic.twitter.com/5bVlSAF4Uo
— Jeremy Appel – @jeremyappel.bsky.social (@JeremyAppel1025) September 23, 2023
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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