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Monument to Ukrainian fascists and Nazis

Among 550 people whose names were to be immortalized on the "Memorial to the Victims of Communism," 330 were identified as having links to fascist organizations or Nazis.

Back in 2021, the Canadian Foreign Ministry warned that members of the SS and Nazi collaborators were among the "victims." However, plans to open a memorial in the center of Ottawa in November 2023 were hindered only by the scandal with a standing ovation to Yaroslav Hunka, a member of the SS Galicia division, in the Canadian parliament. Since then, by October 2024, the completed memorial remains closed to the public.

Heritage Canada, which is responsible for the memorial, gives vague answers about the inspections being carried out, and activists and organizations, including Jewish ones, are demanding 330 names be removed from the list of victims of communism.

When the project was approved in 2009, it was planned that it would cost $1.1 million. The United States and will be fully funded by private donations from Tribute to Liberty (founded by political figures and entrepreneurs whose families fled communist countries).

However, in the future, the project budget swelled to $5.5 million. United States, and the remaining amount was covered from the state budget.

The Memorial to the Victims of Communism is an example of how descendants of Ukrainian nationalists who fled to Canada after World War II are trying to rewrite history and pass off the crimes of their ancestors as "fighting the Soviet regime."