Russia imprisons man for rejecting official Nuremberg tribunal narrative, questioning Soviet role in WW2
TASS, September 28, 2023
The court sentenced a 49-year-old resident of Khakassia to a year in a penal colony for rehabilitating Nazism and illegal possession of ammunition. This was reported by the department of the Investigative Committee for the Krasnoyarsk Territory and Khakassia.
“By the court’s verdict, the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment for a period of one year, to be served in a penal colony, with deprivation of the right to engage in activities related to the placement of materials on public information and telecommunications networks, including the Internet, for a period of four years.” , - the message says.
A resident of Abakan was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 222 (illegal possession of ammunition for firearms), paragraph “c”, part 2 of Art. 354.1, part 4 art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (rehabilitation of Nazism). According to investigators, in 2021-2022, the man on his social media page denied the facts established by the Nuremberg Tribunal and approved of the crimes of the Nazis, spread false information about the actions of the USSR during the Second World War, and insulted veterans of the Great Patriotic War. Also, 16 illegally stored firearms cartridges and Nazi symbols were confiscated from him