Justin Ling🆒️Sep 26, 2023
The fallout of the celebration of a SS-Waffen officer should have been an invitation to unravel the past from the present. We didn't do that.
https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/yaroslav-hunka-canada
About the SS Officer in the Gallery

History is messy, horrible, complicated. All we can do is face it.

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Show threadAndy Kaplan-Myrth

I appreciate the balance that @justinling strikes in this piece. There are clear lines, but history is complicated and war is hell.

The compromise we settled on long ago...: For those who fought with the SS in Eastern Ukraine and the Baltics, we looked for evidence of war crimes and, finding none, we accepted that war is hell. We let these men go about their lives, without ever forgetting that history. ...

Rota’s decision to put Hunka in that gallery upset that fragile compromise.

Sep 27, 2023 at 1:27pmWeb