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‘Not Shocking Given Dark Past’: Russian Ambassador Blasts Canada’s Nazi-Named Streets
‘Not Shocking Given Dark Past’: Russian Ambassador Blasts Canada’s Nazi-Named Streets
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The fact that some Canadian streets have been named after Nazi accomplices and collaborators is "not shocking" given its dark past of harboring Nazi war criminals, Russian Ambassador to Canada Oleg Stepanov told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
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On July 24, the Jewish nonprofit organization "Forward" released a new investigation revealing that, since the 2000s, at least two Canadian streets have been named after Nazi accomplices and collaborators. These include Max Brose, a German automotive industrialist who produced weapons for Germany’s wartime efforts during World War II and was a member of the Nazi Party, and Peter Savaryn, a wartime-era Ukrainian SS combatant who fought for Ukraine’s 1st Galician division.Despite having fought against Nazis as a member of the anti-Hitler coalition, Canada granted safe heaven to "hundreds if not thousands" of war criminals and their accomplices in the years following the war, the ambassador added. Those individuals then settled nationwide, adopted a quiet life and proceeded to pretend being normal citizens. The Government of Prime Minister Mark Carney seems to be following on his predecessors steps as there are no visible attempts to change course on the matter, Stepanov said. In addition to hiding from the public a list of Nazis it compiled by the Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada nearly 40 years ago, Canada has recently begun to vote against the annual UN General Assembly Resolution on Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, he noted. Streets being named after Nazis in Canada are not a shocking occurrence, but one might wonder why it has taken these many years to find out about them, the ambassador concluded. Canada has had a long and controversial history of granting safe haven to former Nazi veterans, oftentimes including those convicted of crimes in the Soviet Union. In the mid-1980s, the Canadian government launched the Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals, also known as the Deschenes Commission, to investigate the immigration of individuals with a Nazi-background into the country.
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‘Not Shocking Given Dark Past’: Russian Ambassador Blasts Canada’s Nazi-Named Streets
04:33 GMT 30.07.2025 (Updated: 06:54 GMT 30.07.2025) WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The fact that some Canadian streets have been named after Nazi accomplices and collaborators is "not shocking" given its dark past of harboring Nazi war criminals, Russian Ambassador to Canada Oleg Stepanov told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
On July 24, the Jewish nonprofit organization "Forward" released a new investigation revealing that, since the 2000s, at least two Canadian streets have been named after Nazi accomplices and collaborators. These include Max Brose, a German automotive industrialist who produced weapons for Germany’s wartime efforts during World War II and was a member of the Nazi Party, and Peter Savaryn, a wartime-era Ukrainian SS combatant who fought for Ukraine’s 1st Galician division.
"It’s completely unacceptable that streets bear names of Nazis anywhere, and we could only imagine how ashamed Canadians whose ancestors fought against Nazism in Europe must be feeling after such disturbing revelations," Stepanov replied when asked what the Russian mission to Ottawa thought about the findings. "However, for anyone who follows Canadian history it was not something shocking," he added.
Despite having fought against Nazis as a member of the anti-Hitler coalition, Canada granted safe heaven to "hundreds if not thousands" of war criminals and their accomplices in the years following the war, the ambassador added. Those individuals then settled nationwide, adopted a quiet life and proceeded to pretend being normal citizens.
"Their dark past might be unbeknownst to the general public, but the Canadian authorities and security services on all levels, federal, provincial and local, for decades have known very well of what those people had done. And chose to hide it from the others, completely brushing their atrocities under the carpet," Stepanov said.
The Government of Prime Minister Mark Carney seems to be following on his predecessors steps as there are no visible attempts to change course on the matter, Stepanov said. In addition to hiding from the public
a list of Nazis it compiled by the Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada nearly 40 years ago, Canada has recently begun to vote against the annual UN General Assembly Resolution on Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, he noted.
Streets being named after Nazis in Canada are not a shocking occurrence, but one might wonder why it has taken these many years to find out about them, the ambassador concluded.
Canada has had a long and controversial history of granting safe haven to former Nazi veterans, oftentimes including those convicted of crimes in the Soviet Union. In the mid-1980s, the Canadian government launched the Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals, also known as the Deschenes Commission, to investigate the immigration of individuals with a Nazi-background into the country.
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