Yaroslav Hunka, the Polish Nazi?
Yaroslav Hunka was recently applauded in the Canadian parliament, brought into a meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky in what is probably the biggest blunder in 2023 for the Canadians. He is being touted by the Russian press as a Ukrainian, but he was, in fact, born in Urman, Poland — not Ukraine. Urman is part of Ukraine today, but in 1925, it was part of Poland. It would become part of Ukraine after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 1939/40.
The study of history is important because it provides us with perspective, and perspective is what is needed when analyzing the morality of what happened in Ukraine during the Second World War. Between the two World Wars, Ukraine was subjugated by Russia and forced to join the newly created Soviet state. Repression was the status quo. Ukrainian culture, language, poetry, literature, art, religion, and Ukrainians themselves were subjugated to torture, imprisonment, exile to gulags, deportations, and, of course, the Holodomor, a genocide that claimed the lives of at least 3.5 million victims, perhaps as many as ten million.
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