I hadn’t read about this division in detail before, only heard about the collaboration with the Nazis. For a division formed “to fight for Ukrainian independence from the Soviets”, they spent an incredibly large percentage of their time fighting partisans outside of Ukraine.
At the end of WWII, a special plea was made to the pope that they were good Catholics and fervent anti-communists. This insured they were not sent to the USSR, but a settler-colony more closely aligned with their views. Clearly they were outstanding candidates for KKKanadian citizenship
And that fuels many westerners views of Ukrainians today. The insane right wingers ended up in Canada and some in the US and much like the “exile Cuban” population in Miami (mostly) aka gusanos they spent decades spreading bullshit anti-Soviet, anti-communist (generally), pro-Nazi narratives. And American/Canadians being fucking morons… just ate that shit up, same as they did/do for those right wing Cuban-Americans.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician)
I hadn’t read about this division in detail before, only heard about the collaboration with the Nazis. For a division formed “to fight for Ukrainian independence from the Soviets”, they spent an incredibly large percentage of their time fighting partisans outside of Ukraine.
At the end of WWII, a special plea was made to the pope that they were good Catholics and fervent anti-communists. This insured they were not sent to the USSR, but a settler-colony more closely aligned with their views. Clearly they were outstanding candidates for KKKanadian citizenship
And that fuels many westerners views of Ukrainians today. The insane right wingers ended up in Canada and some in the US and much like the “exile Cuban” population in Miami (mostly) aka gusanos they spent decades spreading bullshit anti-Soviet, anti-communist (generally), pro-Nazi narratives. And American/Canadians being fucking morons… just ate that shit up, same as they did/do for those right wing Cuban-Americans.
And
more than welcomed them, considering the multiple monuments to them that got put up