Lev Golinkin is a regular contributor to the Forward whose work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, NBC, The Boston Globe, Politico Europe, and Time.com. His memoir, A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, chronicles his immigration from Ukraine.
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News Canada was ashamed to have saluted a Ukrainian who fought for Hitler. But that salute didn’t come from nowhere
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The man was part of SS Galichina, a unit whose history has been whitewashed by veterans groups in the West
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