The ECHR communicated a complaint against the verdict in the case of the rehabilitation of Nazism

The European Court of Human Rights communicated the complaint of the defense of Perm resident Vladimir Luzgin, who in 2016 was convicted of “denying the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal” (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) and was sentenced to a fine of 200 thousand rubles. About that "Kommersant".

reports the Supreme Court in September last year upheld the verdict of the Perm Regional Court, which fined Luzgin 200 thousand rubles. He was convicted for reposting on VKontakte the article “15 facts about Bandera, or what the Kremlin is silent about,” which was viewed by 20 people over two years, including a law enforcement officer. Statements about the joint attack of the USSR and Germany on Poland on September 1, 1939 and the outbreak of World War II by these states, as well as the conclusion made about the “cooperation of communism and Nazism,” are recognized as criminal offenses.

A resident of Perm was accused of “denying the facts” established by the Nuremberg Tribunal and “disseminating deliberately false information about the activities of the USSR during the Second World War,” since the tribunal placed full responsibility for the outbreak of the war on Germany and did not establish facts of collusion with the USSR.

Luzgin became the first person in Russia convicted under Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code.