No denying Canada’s monuments to Nazi collaborators

Some Ukrainian-Canadian community members dismiss this as fake news spread by Russia. The problem with the simplistic ‘blame Russia’ excuse is that it does not change history.

Members of the Nachtigall Battalion, pictured, commanded by Roman Shukhevych, are alleged to have been involved in the killing of between 4,000 and 6,000 Jews in Lviv in 1941. A bust of Mr. Shukhevych stands in Edmonton, Alta.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

November 1, 2017

OTTAWA—A story last week in the National Post revealed the disturbing fact that there are actually monuments in Canada that glorify Second World War Nazi collaborators. There is no denying the truth of these allegations, as they were

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