CRINGE PIC OF THE YEAR

 

Yep. It wasn’t too hard deciding on this month’s cringiest pic. Every member in Canada’s Parliament stood to applaud as the (former) Speaker of the House introduced Yaroslav Hunka, standing in the public gallery. Hunka, 98, was a former member of the Waffen-SS 1^st Galician Division. He was a Nazi soldier who “fought against Russia” during WWII, which means he fought against the Allies, which included both Canada and the USSR. 

 

That this despicable event happened in the seat of our supposed democracy is a betrayal of the memory of all those who fought against Nazism in the middle decades of the 20^th Century. That this could happen in the early decades of this century, does not bode well for the times ahead.