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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law banning the public identification of the goals, decisions and actions of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany during World War II, as well as denying the decisive role of the Soviet people in defeating fascism, TASS reported. quoted by BTA.
The text is available on the Russian portal for legal information.
The authors point out that it is inadmissible to equate the actions of the “defenders of the Motherland, who gave their lives in the struggle for its freedom and independence, the actions of the liberating soldiers with the actions of the occupying soldiers, found guilty of crimes The Nuremberg Tribunal “.
Sanctions for violators of this law have not yet been determined.
The Russian president also signed a law banning the public display of images of Nazi war criminals as “extremist material” because it “offends the multiethnic people and the memory of the victims of the Great Patriotic War.” The dissemination of statements by leaders of organizations recognized as criminal by the Nuremberg tribunal is also prohibited. Exceptions are cases in which a negative attitude is formed towards the ideology of Nazism and there are no signs that it will be propagated or justified.
The law is at Putin’s request
Putin himself has repeatedly stated that Russia is increasingly confronted with attempts to rewrite history and even to signal moral and other equality between the USSR and the Nazis and to reconsider the role of the Red Army in defeating fascism.
The president, by the way set off at the beginning of the year recommendation to draft the bill and set a deadline for its submission by July. At the time, his use of the word “identification” was met with questions about what exactly he meant, but the text indicated that it covered the work and motivation of the two leaderships, the Soviet and the Nazi.
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The summer marks the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the USSR less than two years after Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin shared independent protocols and maps of independent Poland and areas of influence in Eastern Europe.
Many historians believe that the Non-Aggression Pact of August 1939 played a key role in untying Hitler’s hands to start World War II on September 1 of that year with an attack on Poland. Last year, Putin published an extensive article accusing the West of being to blame for the war for allowing the merger – and in fact annexation – of Austria in March 1938, and especially the Munich Agreement of September of that year, which led to the annexation of parts of Czechoslovakia.
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