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No it is more: "Stop talking about this because it is disingenuous and misrepresents the situation"
He was not introduced as a Nazi, but as a WW2 veteran that fought against Russia. Because you know, Russia is a much bigger threat to western freedom at the moment than Fascism.
You mean like this:
https://www.reuters.com/world/canada-house-speaker-apologizes-recognition-veteran-who-fought-nazis-2023-09-24/
And this:
https://www.dw.com/en/canadas-trudeau-apologizes-after-ex-nazi-mistakenly-honored/a-66943803
And the hundreds of other articles that talk about how profusely they apologised after they found out he was a Nazi?
Almost like, gasp Fascism isn't tolerated in Canada and the rest of the west. (Including Ukraine)
So he was introduced as a nazi then? He was introduced as a ukrainian ww2 veteran who fought against Russia. Aka a soldier of the third Reich.
Is your issue that "oh but they framed it in a good way, how can you blame him for clapping for a nazi when the nazi was introduced in a favorable light."? Do you expect the prime Minister of a country not to know basic facts about the largest war of the last century?
Two comments above someone called it "the finer points of WW2"...
Lmao