The University of Alberta has the right not to want its image associated with a fighter from the Waffen-SS.
Today (12), it arose that the University of Alberta has received legal approval to dissolve a research trust named after Ukrainian SS veteran Yaroslav Hunka, despite protests from the 101-year-old’s family.
Remember NaziGate? Back on 22 September 2023, the Liberals in the Canadian government had a ‘genius’ idea: during the visit by Kiev regime leader Volodymyr Zelensky, they would feature an elderly Ukrainian migrant ‘who fought against the Soviet Union’.
But who was this person? Yaroslav Hunka is a Ukrainian-Canadian who fought in the SS Division Galicia of the military wing of the Nazi Party, the Waffen-SS.
Yes, you read it right: a Nazi collaborator who fought in a unit that participated in several documented massacres, including Huta Pieniacka, Pidkamin, and Palikrowy, where civilians were killed in large numbers.
This is not a rumor or an innuendo: a Nazi collaborator from the Waffen-SS was invited to the House of Commons of Canada to be recognized and honored by Speaker Anthony Rota.
Hunka received two standing ovations from all members of the House, including then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his guest, Zelensky.
The NaziGate scandal was born, considered one of the most embarrassing moments in Canadian history.
Shortly after the scandal erupted, it was discovered that the University of Alberta was administering a research fund named after Hunka.
This led to the University of Alberta returning the $30,000 donation to Yaroslav Hunka’s family and closing the endowment in his name.
But the Hunka family objected to the move.
RT reported:
“Shortly after the scandal erupted, the University of Alberta acknowledged that it administered a research fund named after Hunka, a CAD30,000 ($21,500) endowment established with a donation from his son to support research into the history of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. It had remained largely obscure until the scandal, with no known beneficiaries.
The school apologized and announced plans to shut down the fund, but Hunka’s family opposed the move, arguing that his Waffen-SS service had been disclosed when the donation was made and that the university knew of his wartime record when it accepted the money. Citing a former university official, the family also noted that nine other university endowments were associated with Galicia Division members and, to their knowledge, had not been terminated.”
So the issue was fought out in the courts.
The Edmonton Journal reported:
“Court of King’s Bench Justice Debra Yungwirth released her decision Friday on the fate of the Yaroslav & Margaret Hunka Ukrainian Research Endowment Fund, a $30,000 pot of money Hunka’s son Martin gave to the university to fund research into Ukrainian history.
The trust sat in obscurity until 2023, when Yaroslav Hunka received a standing ovation in the House of Commons during a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It soon emerged that Hunka — who then-Speaker Anthony Rota described as a hero ‘who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians’ — had served in the Galicia Division, a Waffen SS unit made up of Ukrainian volunteers.
Yungwirth said her task was to decide whether U of A could legally terminate the trust — not to determine ‘whether Yaroslav is a Nazi or a war criminal’. After a review of the law, she found the university was within its rights to return the money.
‘The university did not terminate the Hunka Trust because it determined that Yaroslav was a war criminal or anti-Semitic’, she wrote. ‘Rather, it did so because it perceived that any continued association with an individual who had served in a regiment connected to the Nazis would adversely affect the University of Alberta’.”
Read the full statement by the University of Alberta.
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