Not sure why folks in Toronto staged a ‘Victory Day’

In Canada, V-E Day honours those who fought for freedom. Joseph Stalin was never one of them.

Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin, pictured at the Yalta Conference, held Feb. 7-11, 1945. No fair-minded person denies the Soviet Union eventually played a major role in helping defeat the Nazis. Millions of Soviet citizens and soldiers died. Those victims deserve to be hallowed. That said, the Soviet Union was not our ally when the war began, writes Lubomyr Luciuk. Photograph courts of Wikipedia

Opinion

BY LUBOMYR LUCIUK

May 1, 2017

KINGSTON, ONT.—Some folks in Toronto recently staged a “Victory Day” rally. I am not sure why. Making merry on April 23, the day the Red Army’s soldiers broke into Berlin and raped at least 100,000 women seems rather gauche. But then some of those staging this fête described themselves as S...

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