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Confirmed by AP news here (go directly to slide 4 in the slideshow for more information)
For those who don’t want to click the link:
I think you guys are being a bit over the top here about his:
Germans made three political concessions: It was stipulated that the division shall not be used to fight Western Allies, and would be used exclusively to "fight Bolsheviks". The other concession was in that its oath of allegiance to Hitler was conditional on the fight against Bolshevism.
Good thing there's no link between anti communism and fascism
Bolshevism didn’t exist during WWII, therefore the Ukrainian SS division wasn’t actually loyal to Hitler
Yes he took the oath of allegiance to the head nazi, but how do we know he was actually a nazi and not just a brave freedom fighter?
In the 50s and 60s, the easiest way to gain entry into Canada for immigration was to show a Nazi tattoo. This proved one was ideologically anti-communist and thus safe.
had me in the first half
Things the 'good guys' do:
Bring out and parade around a Nazi for applause while brazenly lying about his actual identity and the nature of his service
hahahahahahahaha
fidel needs to come back and beat some sense into his son
hello son
Parading around the OUN flag... That really disturbs me. No liberal has learned anything from the holocaust except "history repeats itself", pretending it's a law of physics.
No liberal has learned anything from the holocaust except "history repeats itself", pretending it's a law of physics.
They sure seem to want it to repeat itself as many times as needed
Our Deputy Prime Minister Christian Freeland was more than happy to pose behind the banner last year
She was also probably the first person to trot out the "mentioning Ukrainian nazis is Russian propaganda!" line when asked why her grandfather worked for a nazi propaganda rag.
Holy shit "people that fought in the nazi army were nazos is Russian propaganda.
Anybody else notice how this "Russian propoganda" has had a way stronger connection to reality than the libs explanation of everything for the last couple years.
Completely on brand and absolutely no one in the MSM sphere will question who was fighting against the Russians in WW2
Right this way 
when are we going to hear about brave resistance to the Russians liberating Auschwitz
I did not have that on my bingo card for this year.
AP news wrote a lot of words when they could've just said Stalin shouldn't have stopped at Berlin.
Edit: Also, I'm overflowing with tankie energy right now. 
The color of the shirts on the first photo, eh, does check out.
Weird that the call it the First Ukrainian Division when it was called "SS Schuetzen Division "Galizien" when this old Nazi bitch joined up. For a real ass patriot like this fella it's weird he joined this outfit considering "The terms "Ukrainian", "Ukraine", could not be used when addressing the division, stressing the Imperial Austro-Hungarian heritage of the term "Galizien"."
Also found out that this evil cocksucker might've seen fucking Himmler himself when he gave his division a speech.
This is not even about supporting Ukraine anymore. It's just glorification of Nazis.
Being a leftist and knowing the actual history seems like some kinda clown-car damnation from time to time. This is one of those times.
Always important to point out that more Ukrainian fought in the Red Army in WW2 than with the Nazi collaborators. Just to piss off the "national liberation" crowd.
Like, an entire additional digit more
Zelensky's fucking grandpa fought for the Soviets
These are photos of SS Galicia Division veteran who was given standing ovation by Canadian parliament, prime-minister of Canada and president of Ukraine. He published these photos of himself in this division during training in Germany.
He wrote that he volunteered to join SS Galicia Division in 1943 in Ternopil region in Western Ukraine
https://twitter.com/I_Katchanovski/status/1705739708683128836
Ironically less nazi imagery in photos of the original nazis than I see in photos of ukrainian troops in 2023.
Really makes you think 
Well they just considered it the natural state of things, whereas current Nazis need to assert themselves loudly because they think they don't have any power. Of course, they are wrong, they have lots of power in the Western world, but it is mostly stealthy and surrounded by liberal civility.
Like a rogue section of frontal lobe that doesn't recognize it's own limbs
all nazis born after 1990 know is buy sonnerad pins on etsy, get arty striked after livestreaming yourself seig heiling on telegram, eat hot chip, and lie
Lol he joined right when they were starting to lose lol
not even one of the contemporary kkklown divisions that litter ukkkraine, but one of the OG nazis. not surprised tbh
Really not beating the supporting Nazis allegations with this
First time I've ever been humiliated to be a Canadian. Thanks Parliament.
Legit, if I found out my child’s school in a “progressive country” made students march around honoring nazis, I would tell my kid to become a bully
Formed in 1943, it was largely destroyed in the battle of Brody
Completely unsurprising lmfao. The majority of SS volunteer formations absolutely sucked in combat, exceptions being for example "Nordland" but their actions were completely reckless and suicidal, achieving nothing in return. "Galizien" was among the terrible ones, units like these were good in nothing else than "anti partisan activities", and that often means pure war crimes -- hanging suspected partisans, surrendered partisans or general combat with irregular units, where the Germans conducted their war with no rules whatsoever. But when the time to face the actual Red Army came, these units were almost always utterly swept aside by the Soviets. After a good few days of intense beatings, their remnants would pull back and reorganize far from the front, where they resumed "anti partisan activities". "Galizien" took part in supressing the Slovak National Uprising, which they did by massacring civilians.
Also being volunteer formations make every single soldier absolutely guilty of every terrible action their units did, if some soldiers were forced into service there might be an argument, but there isn't, because each one of these fucks knew what they were doing. I am glad the Red Army brought ultimate justice to these pieces of shit, althrough this one might have slipped away.
And he slipped away to Canada like a fucking rat. And years later, Canada would give this fuck a standing ovation. Canada. Ask Canadian WW2 vets what they thought of the SS, ask any of their Normandy vets what they would do to any prisoner belonging to the "SS Hitlerjugend" division, this unit has a very particular history with Canadians. The SS commited numerous war crimes against Canadian troops in WW2, and these motherfuckers are now giving them standing ovations? Man fuck the west, fuck every bit of this worthless concept. Fuck all liberals, motherfuckers are an insult even to their own history.
that often means pure war crimes
It 100% meant pure war crimes. It's not like they had any competence for actual police work or any discipline for actual garrison duty or anything else valuable.
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