ON SEPTEMBER 22, 2023, Canadian lawmakers rose to applaud a 98-year-old World War II veteran. The speaker of the House of Commons called Yaruslav Hunka a “hero,” and the Ukrainian Canadian saluted in response.
But this wasn’t the simple patriotic spectacle it seemed. Hunka, it turned out, had “fought for the wrong team” during the war, as two members of the Jewish organization B’nai Brith Canada would later put it. In the “bloodlands” where Ukraine borders Poland and the Soviet Red Army battled Hitler’s legions,
