If Russia is truly concerned about denazification, it should address the problem at home
David Matas is a human rights advocate and senior counsel to B’nai Brith Canada.
Ukraine, to be sure, is not innocent. Of the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, 1.5 million were Ukrainian. Those killings were done mostly by German roving killing squads, the Einsatzgruppen. But, to know who to kill, the Germans relied on local collaborators to identify the Jews. The Russian story is also mixed. The Russian-led Soviets during the Second World War fought bravely and hard against the Nazis, losing almost nine million combatants and a further 18-million civilians. Yet, the Soviets helped to trigger the Second World War by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression agreement that divided up Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union shortly before Germany invaded Poland.
Vladimir Putin’s Russia, despite its general repression, tolerates the Russian Imperial Movement, a neo-Nazi, antisemitic, armed white supremacist organization, designated by the U.S. as a terrorist entity. In their current invasion, the Russians have bombed, in Kyiv, Babi Yar, a site memorializing the mass killing of Jews there.
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