Russian citizen convicted for reposting article about Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939
A resident of Perm has been ordered to pay a fine of 200,000 rubles for the "rehabilitation of Nazism."
In Russia, the court found a resident of Perm guilty of publically denying the decisions of the Nuremberg trials and the dissemination of false information about the activities of the USSR during the Second World War, Kommersant reports.
The court ordered a resident of Perm, Vladimir Luzgin, to pay a fine of 200,000 rubles on charges of rehabilitation of Nazism.
The grounds for the criminal proceedings was a repost on Luzgin’s page on Vkontakte of an article titled “15 Facts about Banderites, or what the Kremlin is Silent About,” that describes a joint attack by the Soviet Union and Germany on Poland in September 1939 and the outbreak of the Second World War.
According to the prosecution, as a result of the repost made by Luzgin in December 2014, 20 people read this article.
It is noted that during the investigation, the defendant was asked about the history of the Second World War. Luzgin explained that he learned in school about a joint attack by the Soviet Union and Germany on Poland.
At the same time, the presence of false facts about the USSR was acknowledged by the Dean of Historical Faculty of the Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University.
The Court came to the conclusion that based on Luzgin’s high marks in history at school that his knowledge of history must be enough to realize that the article contained false facts.
In May, a Russian was detained for commenting in the group "Russian-speaking banderites" in Vkontakte.