Social Canada Unveils Memorial for Victims of Communism; Over Half of the Victims Honored Had WWII Nazi or Fascist Links

[Orgasmo]

I guess Trudeau's numbnut government decided giving two rounds of standing ovation to a Nazi in parliament last year wasn't enough.

The Department of Canadian Heritage is being told that more than half of the 550 names on the Memorial to the Victims of Communism should be removed because of potential links to the Nazis or questions about affiliations with fascist groups, according to government records.

As originally planned, there were to be 553 entries on the Ottawa memorial’s Wall of Remembrance.

A 2023 report for Canadian Heritage recommended more than 330 names be excluded to be on the safe side, the records noted. The exclusions were recommended because of the lack of information about the individuals or organizations and whether they might have links to fascist organizations or the Nazis. Some of the entries could also be removed because they have no direct link to Canada.

The memorial, which is located near the corner of Wellington and Bay streets, is supposed to honour those who suffered under communism.

But concerns have been raised over the years by Jewish organizations and historians that names of eastern Europeans who collaborated with the Nazis in the Holocaust have been put forward in an attempt to whitewash their past.

The memorial was supposed to be unveiled in November 2023 but that was put on hold after members of Parliament honoured Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian soldier with the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, a voluntary unit that was under the command of the Nazis. That incident became an international embarrassment for Canada.

Victims of Communism memorial faces call to remove over 330 names linked to Nazis, fascists

A Canadian Heritage report obtained by the Ottawa Citizen recommends removing more than 330 names from the memorial.

ottawacitizen.com

 

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[OneOfOne]

Everyone had their affiliations in WW2. Either you were working with Nazis or you were working with Communists.

 

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[wolffanghameha]

Idk the specifics of this memorial, but IMO we should remember the fallen. Even the ones who were on a wrong side or did bad things, because it's still a tragedy that they and the world around them got to a situation where their life was wasted. Things should never get to that point in the first place. These people still had their own dreams, personal connections, pains etc. They should even say at the memorial that many of these people had nazi or fascist links and that we still mourn for what happened. While it's primarily a memorial to the victims of communism, it can also be a memorial to how nazi ideology and propaganda, and the conditions that allowed fascist ideologies to flourish in Europe, led to the deaths and debasing of morals of the people it duped.

Just because people are scumbags or immoral, you don't drop your own morals, such as valuing life and having compassion for others - which doesn't mean you can't kill, but it's never desirable or to be taken lightly. Many arguing about the Palestine-Israel conflict ought to learn that too (especially outsiders who can't use the emotion or fear from being a personal victim as an excuse to become idiots).

 

[Natural Order]

Best part is that it started as a 1.5 million dollar private project and ballooned to 7.5 million, with taxpayers paying 6 million somehow.

Fucking joke

 

[Lycandroid]

why even narrow it down to 550 when there are millions of victims ?

 

[Makani]

"Death of Dieburg? It's a fucking nickname, the family name is Schnackenpfefferhausen."

 

[Kingz]

People claim that the Bolsheviks were so overwhelmingly Jewish in leadership because Jews were persecuted in Tsarist Russia and had every just reason to be in league with a violent anarchist revolution

So doesn’t it stand to reason that many people, especially in Ukraine and other regions on the business end of the violent Russian Revolution and ensuing communist subjugation over the 25-30 years between the start of the civil war and the Nazi’s invading the Soviet Union, that these people would be justified to join the fascists?

Point being..just because they later tried to fight the communists under an unfavored flag doesn’t mean they weren’t victims of communism. They likely joined the Nazis precisely because they were victims of communism

Memes like these seem to suggest “only Nazi’s suffered under communists”…and that’s not true. Nazi’s might’ve never been a thing if not for communism.

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

you know western propaganda is powerful when people would rather side with actual nazis than communists.