The controversial Victims of Communism memorial in downtown Ottawa will no longer feature the names of specific individuals after federal officials determined a significant number could be linked to the Nazis. Article content
The memorial, located near the corner of Wellington and Bay streets, was intended to honour those who suffered under communism.
But concerns have been raised over the years by Jewish organizations and historians that names of eastern Europeans who collaborated with the Nazis in the Holocaust have been put forward in an attempt to whitewash their past.
The Ottawa Citizen reported in 2024 that the Department of Canadian Heritage was told by historians that more than half of the 550 names to be inscribed on the Memorial to the Victims of Communism should be removed. The reason was because of potential links to the Nazis or questions about affiliations with fascist groups.
i feel immense joy from reading this
Born too early to see the victims of capitalism memorial 😔
Every soldier memorial of the past 100 years seems close
so if i understood this correctly there will still be a monument commemorating the nazi “victims”… except their names won’t be on it?
whitewashing nazis to be anticommunist should not surprise me anymore by this point but still.
A memorial to the victims of communism, such as uhh don’t worry about jt
someone should troll them by fooling the clueless supporters to insist that they write names on it.
oops all fascists
really on the nose
Sharp-dressed victims of Antifa shrine.
