Zelenskyy joins Canadian Parliament's ovation to 98-year-old veteran who fought with Nazis (forward.com)

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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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Jesus Fuck. I was expecting this was fake, but it's not. Here's the AP article, it's image number 4 in the scroller thingy. Here's that dude's Wikipedia page.

It’s one thing when eastern Europe plays it fast and loose with that period of history, but I expect better from my own government.

Edit: It looks like they've already apologised.

[-] LostWon@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Zelenskyy wasn't in the videos I saw earlier today (just the Speaker, the House, and Hunka), but I've noticed the fist pumping gesture Zelenskyy is doing in that picture seems to be a mirror image of the gesture Hunka himself does during the applause (like one of the two did it first and the other is returning the gesture). :/