History of the Bloodlands

I haven't very often taken cues from Twitter/X for posts here and given X's situation, I'm likely to do so less in future. But, regarding the national embarrassment over who was honoured in the House of Commons during Ukrainian President Zelensky's recent appearance there, I was struck by an X commentator who posted, more or less:

Wouldn't it be useful to have someone around Parliament who knows some history?

I happened to see the television news coverage the night of the tribute, and I was, well, surprised a little, to hear the Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons honour someone for having fought against Russia during the Second World War. 

Canada was an ally of Russia during the Second World War; Russia was fighting on our side. And fighting against the Soviet Union in eastern Europe at that time did necessary mean assisting the perpetrators of the Holocaust (at the very least). 

Beyond that, I find the whole situation both tragic and murky. Anyone with a glancing familiarity with, say, Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands, knows there were no good options for people seeking to defend themselves and their communities in the territories contested by Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union during that war. Not everyone who resisted Stalin's murderous legions was a Nazi.

Did none of those considerations cross any minds among the planners of the event on the Hill? Surely Canada can give all possible support to today's Ukraine without venturing into black-and-white distinctions about loyalties and alliances in that place at that period.