THE Canadian federal government has ensnared itself in yet another embarrassing Nazi scandal. The Department of Canadian Heritage was just informed that over half of the 550 names engraved on its Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Ottawa are Nazis or have links to fascist groups.
The Ottawa Citizen newspaper obtained a copy of a report commissioned by the government, which found that at least 330 of the supposed “victims” were members of fascist organisations or were collaborators with Hitler’s Germany during World War II.
Many were perpetrators of war crimes in the USSR, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and other countries occupied by the Nazis.
The Memorial to the Victims of Communism originated with the former Conservative Party government of prime minister Stephen Harper. In 2007, the then-minister of multiculturalism Jason Kenney visited Masaryktown, a private park in Toronto belonging to members of the Czech and Slovak community, where he saw a piece of anti-communist art depicting a man crucified on a hammer and sickle.
Likely dreaming about locking in the votes of some of the eight million Canadians who trace their origins to countries that have been governed by communist parties, Kenney proposed building a similar public monument in the capital city. (more...)
Canada’s latest Nazi scandal: ‘Victims of Communism Memorial’ filled with fascist names
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