Rossiya Segodnya media group launched #CancelNaziCanada hashtag on Thursday in protest against the celebration of a Canadian-Ukrainian Nazi veteran in the Canadian parliament last week.
"Its actions and attempts to whitewash an obvious evil have equaled Canada to Nazism. This is what ordinary Nazism looks like. Cover-ups, the ignorance of the obvious, substitution of concepts — everything that characterized the allies at the beginning of the war — they are doing it again. We are going to cancel this behavior," a spokesperson for the media group said.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered a formal apology to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday for putting him in an awkward position. Zelensky was photographed pumping his fist in acknowledged of former SS man Yaroslav Hunka who saluted from the gallery as he was given a standing ovation by Canadian lawmakers.
Ottawa Needs to Learn Lesson After Honoring Nazi Veteran in Parliament
Canada needs to learn a lesson after the scandal with the honoring of a Nazi veteran, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
"It is very important for a country like Canada to learn a lesson after the scandal that happened to it... I think the main thing is to realize the inadmissibility of this in the future and to realize the lack of knowledge in a country like Canada, such a terrible phenomenon as Nazism and fascism… This knowledge should be instilled and it should be done as an inoculation against the fact that Nazism does not repeat itself, and is does repeat itself it should be eradicated," Peskov told a briefing.