Is it a hate crime to write the word "Actual NAZI" on a
Canadian statue glorifying an actual Nazi war criminal?

Or, is the statue itself a hate crime?

Either way, should Canadian taxpayers continue to fund
Ukrainian groups that glorify and whitewash
Nazi collaborators and Holocaust-perpetrators
as if they were "freedom fighting" WWII heroes?

How many more tax dollars should they be given?

How many more years should we fund Nazi-glorifying groups?

How many Canadian statues glorifying Nazi heroes is enough?

"None is too many!!"

PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION to
Stop Canadian government funding of groups that glorify Nazi collaborators

For more than five decades, Edmonton's fascist-glorifying, ethnonationalist Ukrainian community has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants.

In 2021, it received tens of thousands in additional funding for a security camera system to prevent further desecrations of a proNazi statue which it erected in 1973.  This statue at the "Roman Shukhevych Youth Complex Centre" commemorates Shukhevych, a well-known Ukrainian military commander, whose army carried out political- and ethnic-cleansing campaigns that massacred some 150,000 Jews, Poles, Russians, and Soviet partisans allied to Canada during WWII.

The Canadian Government explains that it donated $35,765 for a CCTV system to "increase community safety ... to a community with a demonstrated history of being victimized by hate-motivated crime.”

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Swedish-American scholar Per Anders Rudling, notes that:

"The Edmonton Shukhevych memorial was defaced twice. In 2019 and again in 2021 someone sprayed 'NAZI SCUM,' and 'ACTUAL NAZI' on the monument to the UPA [the fascist Ukrainian Insurgent Army] commander, who served in German uniform in 1939-1943.

"The government of Canada labelled the defacing of the memorial a hate crime and provided the Roman Shukhevych Youth Unity Complex an additional $35,765.32 in additional funding, to pay 'for the installation of a closed circuit television system and intrusion system components' in order 'to increase community safety by providing funding for enhancement of security infrastructure to a community with a demonstrated history of being victimized by hate-motivated crime.'”

Source: "The Far-Right Ukrainian Diaspora’s Policing of History," in The Many Faces of the Far Right in the Post-Communist Space: A Comparative Study on Far-rights Movements and Identity in the Region, State of the Region Report 2021. Published by the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, CBEES, Södertörn University in Huddinge, Sweden.

Learn more about opposition to the Shukhevych statue:
Jonny Wakefield, "Group resumes decades-old fight to remove statue of Ukrainian Nazi collaborator outside Edmonton cultural centre," Edmonton Journal, August 12, 2021.

Duncan Kinney, "Nazi collaborator monuments in Edmonton defaced with red paint and words 'Actual Nazi' and  'Nazi Monument'” Progress Report, August 10, 2021.