Lumping Soviet Union with Nazis ignores historical realities: Darchiev

WWII in Europe started long before Sept. 1, 1939, and could have been avoided through more decisive action by the West.

Canada sent more than a million soldiers, sailors, and airmen to fight in the Second World War, where it formed part of the alliance that eventually defeated Adolf Hitler's fascist regime in Germany.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY ALEXANDER DARCHIEV

September 2, 2019

This year we mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the WWII, in which Canada took part as an ally of the USSR, USA, Britain, and France against Nazism. The peoples of the anti-Hitler coalition suffered huge losses, including among the 1.1-million Canadian s...

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