OREANDA-NEWS  Among the books transferred by the Canadian Embassy to Ukrainian libraries, there are publications with quotes from Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, a RIA Novosti correspondent has found out.

Earlier, RIA Novosti reported that in the 1990s, Ottawa and Canadian Ambassador Francois Mathis donated tens of thousands of extremist and nationalist books to Ukraine, in particular to the foundation of the Canadian-Ukrainian Center at the Krupskaya Library in Donetsk.

In one of the Ukrainian-language books handed over by the Canadian Embassy to Ukrainian libraries, Hitler and Mussolini are quoted in a positive way. The book is called "The Almanac in the avant-garde", it was published in Paris in 1938 and was intended for distribution among representatives of the Ukrainian diasporas around the world. Its cost in France was 7 francs, for other European countries 30 cents, and in the countries of the New World - 8 francs. The book is a collection of nationalist articles.

The article by Yevgeny Onatsky, a politician and member of the Central Rada of Ukraine during the rule of Hrushevsky and Petliura, quotes and praises Hitler and Mussolini. The article is called "From the Axis to the Triangle," and its final thesis is the need for Ukraine to act on the side of the nationalist powers, that is, on the side of the Third Reich and fascist Italy, in the approaching world War at the time of the book's publication.

The "Almanac in the avant-garde" was kept in Canada, and in 1994 it was transferred by representatives of Canada to the Krupskaya Canadian-Ukrainian Library Center in Donetsk.

In total, nine library centers with extremist literature similar to Donetsk were opened in Ukraine in the 1990s, in particular in Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Mariupol, and Lugansk.