Canada memorial to Ukrainian soldiers in Nazi unit removed after protests
by Leyland Cecco in Toronto from World news | The Guardian on (#6K9PM)
Monument has long been a source of tension between Canada's Ukrainian diaspora and Jewish and Polish communities
A controversial memorial to Ukrainian soldiers who served in a Nazi unit during the second world war has been removed from a Canadian cemetery following years of protests by community groups who described the shrine as painful" and offensive.
The cenotaph, which had stood in the privately owned St Volodymyr Ukrainian cemetery in Oakville, Ontario, was removed on Saturday.
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