Can you deny it?

It seems that the strange, to put it mildly, bill on criminal prosecution for denying the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War is going to be rejected. In any case, the government gave him a negative opinion. The idea of ​​criminal prosecution was first expressed by the Minister of Emergency Situations Sergei Shoigu, after which he was supported by the United Russia party. It was proposed that for distorting the Nuremberg verdict and declaring the actions of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition criminal, they should be imprisoned for a term of three to five years.

However, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Sobyanin (also, by the way, a member of United Russia and a member of the bureau of its supreme council) criticized the bill, Vedomosti writes. The government's conclusion, signed by him, states that it is not clear to what range of actions of the countries participating in the anti-Hitler coalition the ban applies. In addition, it is unclear how a sentence that has entered into legal force can be distorted. According to the government, such a law “could lead to undesirable foreign policy consequences.”

However, the first deputy head of the United Russia faction in the Duma, Valery Ryazansky, told the newspaper that the country’s leadership still supports the idea of ​​criminal prosecution for denying the USSR’s role in the war. But a source close to the leadership of the lower house assumes that the law will not be given a go and that President Dmitry Medvedev does not support the idea of ​​criminal prosecution for falsifying history.