The swastika returned with a boomerang

The Central District Court of Krasnoyarsk received an administrative case under part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public demonstration of Nazi symbols) against deputy of the city council of Vladimir Vladimirov, the local publication "Prospekt Mira" reports . The meeting is scheduled for March 20.

According to Vladimirov, he posted a collage on his Facebook page, based on the frame from the television series Seventeen Moments of Spring. In the original image, the protagonist, Soviet intelligence officer Max von Stirlitz, beats a bottle on the head of Obersturmbanfuhrer SS Wilhelm Holtoni, who has a bandage with a swastika on his sleeve. Instead of Holton’s face, on the collage, there was a student of a schoolboy from the new Urengoy Nikolai Testnichenko , who performed in the Bundestag in November last year. The ten -class then said that among German soldiers there were many "innocently dead people, among whom many wanted to live peacefully and did not want to fight."

According to Vladimirov, he published a picture "from patriotic goals." Now the record with the image from the page of the deputy is deleted.

According to the publication, a statement was filed by a certain Nikita Vladimirovich Vladimirov. The name of the applicant fully coincides with the name of the son of a deputy. However, Vladimirov said that his son has nothing to do with the lawsuit.

The protocol on an administrative offense was drawn up on Vladimirov back in February. However, the case was returned to the police, as law enforcement officers did not check the special status of the deputy for whom the special conditions for applying production measures apply.

If Vladimirov is convicted of an administrative article, by law he will lose the right to be elected to the deputies within a year after the decision on the sentence of punishment is executed. Elections to the City Council of Krasnoyarsk will be held in September this year.

In April 2015, the press secretary of Roskomnadzor Vadim Ampelonsky said that the law does not prohibit the use of Nazi symbols without propaganda in art. As an example, he cited the films "Seventeen Moments of Spring" and "Schindler's List".

Nevertheless, such cases are excited from time to time and reach trial. On January 19, the Isakoyurship District Court of Arkhangelsk fined 1 thousand rubles under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the 59-year-old activist Mikhail Listovaz for publication on the VKontakte social network of the 1945 Victory Parade.

Listov stated that he was persecuted because of political views. Since 2014, he openly expresses his opposition mood, consists of a volunteer of the regional headquarters of Navalny. "I did not deny that the page mentioned in the case file belongs to me. And the fact that I personally posted photos on it. Soviet soldiers - it was a picture of 1945, I was shocked by the fact that I could be claimed. I immediately stated that I published this photo as a reminder of historical events, and not to demonstrate the attributes of the Nazis. This photo is generally in history textbooks I printed my guilt, but my arguments did not take action, ”Listov said.

On February 15, the judge of the Arkhangelsk Regional Court Alexander Kharlov canceled the fine appointed by Listov. The judge agreed with the lawyer that the photograph, which depicts Soviet soldiers with lowered German banners, is a historical memory, and not the propaganda of Nazism.