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There are monumets to Nazi collaborators in Canada and nobody is doing anything about it. #NeverForget #Holocaust #WorldWar2 pic.twitter.com/ANQ0FBk9k9 — Russia in Canada (@RussianEmbassyC) October 14, 2017

OTTAWA — Russia’s government has been tweeting to Canadians about “Nazi” monuments on Canadian soil in an apparent digital extension of its conflict with Ukraine.

Some experts are accusing the Russian embassy of intentionally sowing discord and divisiveness, part of a broader strategy to disrupt the political process in Western democracies. Concerns over what’s being shared on social media come amid global worries over “fake news” writ large, and Russian interference in democratic elections.

Recent posts from the official Twitter account of Russia’s embassy to Canada included images of Ukrainian monuments at an Oakville, Ont., cemetery and an Edmonton, Alta., community hall. “There are monumets (sic) to Nazi collaborators in Canada and nobody is doing anything about it,” one tweet said.

The Oakville monument commemorates deceased fighters from the Ukrainian Galicia Division of the SS, the military arm of Germany’s Nazi government during the Second World War. The Edmonton monument is a bust of Roman Shukhevych, the leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army or UPA, an independence militia. Before taking up that mantle he commanded a Ukrainian battalion responsible for murdering thousands of Jewish people.

“We wanted to let our followers on Twitter know that even today in Canada you can find monuments to Nazi collaborators that committed atrocities in the Soviet Union, Poland, etc. and fought against the heroic Red Army that was allied with Canada, U.S. and Britain during the Second World War,” said the curator of the Russian embassy’s Twitter account, press secretary Kirill Kalinin, in a statement.