Navalny announced an "action against idiocy"

Today, February 6, the opposition politician Alexei Navalny urged to distribute a photograph from the Victory Parade on the Internet, for which the user of VKontakte was fined.

Two years ago, a resident of Arkhangelsk Mikhail Listov posted on his VKontakte page a photograph in which the participants in the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945 carry the defined banners and standards of defeated German troops to the Mausoleum on Red Square.

We are talking about a well -known photo . In particular, it is printed on the cover of the textbook Sergey Kuleshov and Oleg Volobuev “History of Russia. XX - the beginning of the XXI century. Grade 11. Basic level. "

In December 2017, an FSB officer in the Arkhangelsk region Y.N. The Arkhiresky discovered this publication and informed the police about this, who started an administrative case on Listov under Art. 20.3 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation in connection with the placement of “Photo images of Nazi attributes, as well as symbols similar to Nazi paraphernalia”

On January 19, Judge Elena Kostyleva, the Isaco District Court of Arkhangelsk, found Listova guilty and fined him 1000 rubles.

In his video message, Navalny called Listov’s case with state idiocy and called for participation in the action: to distribute this video message and post a photo from the Victory Parade in social networks.

“Thus, officially: this photograph is prohibited,” says Navalny. “People who place it are criminals and the road to them in the“ List of Extremists ”.” What to call it? Idiocy. State idiocy, planted from the very top. "

In the spring of 2015, Roskomnadzor explained that "a demonstration of Nazi symbols without propaganda, should not be interpreted as a violation of the law on countering extremism."