My parents were children in Russia during WWII and had to flee the Nazi's when they were marching towards Moscow. I have family members lost to the Holocaust. With that said, I have some empathy towards a teenager living under a despotic Soviet regime and choosing to fight with the enemy of his oppressors, likely without fully understanding who or what he was fighting for. I don't know if that's the case with this man, or if he was well aware and supported what the Nazi's were doing.
As is often the case with the Trudeau-lead Liberal government, this was a blunder, not malicious. To make it more than an embarrassing flub is likely for the purpose of politicizing it.
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