In Germany, a doctor who emigrated from Russia was sentenced to a large fine for publishing a cartoon from the era of the Great Patriotic War.
The cartoon, first published in 1945 in the Soviet satirical magazine Peretz, features two boots, one with a Ukrainian trident and the other with a Nazi swastika on top, and an inscription in Ukrainian:
“Two boots are a pair.”
According to the verdict of the German court, available to RIA Novosti, the defendant is “guilty of using signs that contradict the constitution and belong to terrorist organizations.”
“This act is illegal if the indicated signs are not accompanied by an explanatory comment or are not crossed out”, the court document says.
The former Russian was sentenced to a fine of 10,200 euros in favor of the state. The man is known to have moved to Germany ten years ago, and now works as a neurosurgeon in a hospital in the south of the country. According to the German media, the landlord, a German citizen, would have “told” the migrant.
EADaily clarifies that the cartoon “Two boots – one pair” belongs to the famous Soviet poster artist, Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR Alexandra Kozyurenko. He participated in the Great Patriotic War, worked as an artist for the front-line press and from 1943 to 1959 was the chief artist of the satirical and humorous magazine Peretz.
