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In addition to the state funding, producer Marko Suprun, through his film company Bedlam Productions, and Stepan Bandera Jr, through his film company Banesto Productions, managed to attract funds from private investors in the United States and Canada. Former Acting Minister of Health of Ukraine, Ulyana Suprun, became one of the film's producers.
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Created by Himmler in 1943, the 14th Waffen SS Galizien Division, trained at Nazi concentration camps and carried out mass killings of Poles, Jews and Slovaks. The Nuremberg Tribunal later found that mere membership in the SS was a criminal act.
There is every reason to believe that high level individuals in the government and their allies in the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) wanted to use Zelensky’s visit to further their longstanding efforts to promote and publicly honor the far-right Ukrainian nationalists who collaborated with the Nazis. No doubt they calculated that they would have allies in Zelensky and his entourage. After all, the Ukrainian regime openly celebrates Stepan Bandera, his OUN (B) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which in their drive for an ethnically “pure” Ukraine participated both in the Holocaust and Hitler’s “war of extermination” against the USSR. And it has incorporated the Azov Battalion and other fascist groups that venerate Bandera and his UPA into the Ukrainian military and security services.
There were many people in attendance, beginning with Zelensky and Deputy Prime Minister Freeland, who would have immediately known from Rota’s description of him that Hunka was a fascist, and that he was either a member of the Waffen SS or of Bandera’s OUN (B) and its UPA.
The UCC has long defended and advocated for the Waffen SS veterans. Hunka is himself active in the UCC, and an endowment fund has been set up in his name and that of his late wife at the University of Alberta’s Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies.
The alliance between Canadian imperialism and the Ukrainian far-right is embodied in the current government’s deputy prime minister and finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, who from an early age was enrolled in UCC youth groups. Her maternal grandfather, Mikhalio Chomiak, was the editor of Krakivski Visti, the only Ukrainian newspaper allowed to appear under Nazi occupation. It published a constant stream of anti-Semitic incitement and campaigned for the creation of the Ukrainian-manned SS division.
The most fervent war-hawk in the government, Freeland has spoken frequently and lovingly of how her grandfather schooled her in Ukrainian culture and nationalism. When reports of her grandfather’s role as a Nazi collaborator first surfaced, the political establishment and corporate media joined her in denouncing them as Russian “disinformation.”
The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its armed force, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) participated in the Holocaust.
In 1984, following the death of Mykhailo Khomiak, then known as Michael Chomiak, his personal records revealed his role as editor-in-chief at Krakivski visti from 1940 through 1945 when he was in his thirties. He emigrated to Canada after WWII. Included in his records were detailed communications providing historical context of the articles. The records were acquired by the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1985.