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Canada memorial to Ukrainian soldiers in Nazi unit removed after protests

Canada memorial to Ukrainian soldiers in Nazi unit removed after protests

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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