S1M3: Canadian Internment Camps
The Canadian government, which was full of white British men, decided that it was probably dangerous to have Ukrainians sending letters home to their families in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in case they were actually spies spilling all the Canadian war secrets. So Germans, Ukrainians, Turks and Bulgarians were sent to internment camps for the duration of the war.
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