Conservative Government Condemns

Liberal Party Statement Celebrating 

Soviet-made “Victory Day in Ukraine”

The Liberal Critic for Multiculturalism, MP Jim Karygiannis had issued a statement on May 8, 2013 celebrating the Soviet “Victory Day in Ukraine” on May 9, a holiday created under the reign of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.

According to The Hon. Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism: “What the Liberal Party failed to mention in its “congratulatory” remarks is that the war against the Ukrainian people did not end on May 8, 1945. Beginning under Joseph Stalin, they employed famine, mass arrests, executions, and deportations to the Gulag. These were the merciless tools used to subjugate the Ukrainian people and crush their struggle for national freedom and independence. All of this took place after the official end of WWII and continued through the 20th century until the USSR eventually collapsed.

“In Ukraine, the day after May 8, 1945 represented no victory. It was a continuation of evil and hate against the Ukrainian population. They deliberately sought to deform a society by destroying a proud nation’s culture and historical memory.”

The Conservative Government publicly condemned this statement in the House of Commons on May 9, 2013.