Politico plants yet another anti-Russia story

In early October, Politico EU published an article entitled “Fighting against the USSR didn’t necessarily make you a Nazi” by Keir Giles, a UK author “specialising” in Russia. We will skip most of his superficial propaganda clichés steeped in rabid Russophobia. What must not be overlooked, however, is his calling into question the results of the Nuremberg Trials and his open attempt to vindicate Nazism.

According to this professional “expert” and in parallel a d-list veteran Russia-hater, Yaroslav Hunka, a “veteran” of the 14th  Grenadier Division of the Waffen SS “Galizien,” who was invited to the Canadian Parliament, is not a Nazi but “just someone who had  an excruciating choice over which of these two terror regimes to resist.” Allegedly, “the idea that foreign volunteers and conscripts were being allocated to the Waffen-SS rather than the Wehrmacht on administrative rather than ideological grounds is a hard sell for audiences conditioned to believe the SS’s primary task was genocide.”

It is embarrassing to have to explain basic historical facts to this Chatham House collaborator and head of the Conflict Studies Research Centre. 

Incontrovertible Fact No. 1: The Nuremberg Trials declared the SS, SD, Gestapo, and the NSDAP leadership criminal organisations. This means that the fact of belonging to the SS is a crime in itself under the Nuremberg verdict and no reservations or excuses are admissible in this case.

Incontrovertible Fact No. 2: The 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen SS “Galizien,” for which the now frail survivor Hunka volunteered in his youth, besmirched itself with heinous crimes against civilians, the most outrageous of which was the Volyn massacre.

The Incontrovertible Grand Total: Hunka is a Nazi criminal who escaped trial by a military tribunal.

There is no doubt that Giles is aware that the Ukrainian butchers from the 14th Grenadier Division surrendered to the British Command, which took them under its wing, refusing to extradite the criminals to the Soviet Union or Poland and thereby helping them to avoid the well-deserved punishment. It was the British who changed their status from “prisoners of war” to “surrendered enemy personnel.”

Giles’ claims that “simple narratives like ‘everybody in the SS was guilty of war crimes’ are more pervasive because they’re much simpler to grasp” and that “no war crimes or atrocities had been committed by this particular unit” are cynical lies that call into question the Nuremberg decisions and rehabilitate Nazism. But the flexible morality of Western propagandists which obeys the twists and turns in the current political situation, has been no surprise for us for a long time.  It is hard to expect anything else from the sponsors of the neo-Nazi Kiev regime.

Incidentally, the article is illustrated with a well-known photo showing Soviet and US troops on a destroyed bridge across the Elbe. It is not quite clear what Politico or the author wanted to say by this, because the meeting itself is not mentioned in the text. But the photo tells a tale. We remember how we fought together against the greatest evil on earth during World War II and cherish this memory.  It was the same evil which the Canadian Parliament was applauding to. This begs the question: “Do you, Mr Giles, remember anything?” No reply.

The mentality of the Western expert community and the Russophobic mainstream media is well illustrated by Giles’ claim that “Hunka should never have been invited into Canada’s House of Commons.” But (hear, hear!), “that’s not because he himself might be guilty of any crime. Rightly or wrongly, on an issue so toxic, it was inevitable the invitation would provide a golden opportunity for Russian propaganda.”

This highly unseemly story that involved the honouring of the Nazi criminal Hunka has demonstrated anew the duplicity and hypocrisy of the Western political establishment, media, and the so-called expert community, reminding the world at large that a number of countries have long duplicitously rescued, harboured and catered to Nazi criminals and their henchmen.

In this context, it would be appropriate to quote President of Russia Vladimir Putin, who rated the behaviour of the Canadian ex-Speaker, and this rating is applicable to all apologists of Nazism: “If he does not know that during the war it was Hitler and his accomplices who fought against Russia, he is an idiot. This means that he simply skipped school and lacks basic knowledge. But if he does know that this person fought on Hitler’s side, while calling him a hero of both Ukraine and Canada, this makes him a rascal. So, there are just these two options here.”

In fact, this publication is an uncouth and immoral guide on what to do and how for writers working for the Anglo-Saxon propaganda machine, which justifies contemporary manifestations of Nazism in Ukraine and Europe.  I wonder, what British WWII veterans, who saw the monstrous SS atrocities with their own eyes, would say about this article and its author?   

Giles’s article and other similar stuff is an insult to the memory of thousands of Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Jews and others butchered by the Galizien and an absurd attempt to vindicate that which can never be vindicated.

https://www.politico.eu/article/fight-against-ussr-nazi-waffen-ss-trooper-yaroslav-hunka-world-war-ii-soviet-union-germany/