Moving two monuments that honour the Waffen SS Galicia Division to a museum with a professionally curated setting would put them and the group they venerate in a proper context
Nestled among the gravestones of cemeteries in Edmonton and Oakville, Ont., are two monuments that commemorate those who fought for the freedom of Ukraine.
Indeed, the furor over Mr. Hunka has given them new prominence: neo-Nazis have made pilgrimages to take selfies with the Oakville monument. Those extremists have done Canadians a favour – making it clear that these displays celebrate men who fought as part of Nazi Germany’s war effort. One possibility would be to add historical context to the displays in Oakville and Edmonton, including details of the atrocities that the unit – though not all of its members – took part in. That context could also include the horrors of the Holodomor, the Soviet-perpetrated famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the early 1930s. Such context could further make the point that by 1943, when Mr.
Perhaps, then, the answer is to dismantle the monuments and simply erase them from view and, eventually, from memory. That, too, would be a mistake, akin to the misguided response by the federal Liberals, who attempted to expunge the Hunka episode from the official record of Parliamentary proceedings.
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