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Usinsk: The City Hall warned of extremism on a poster with a Finnish soldier
The prosecutor’s office of Usinsk checked the placement of the poster in honor of May 9, on which, instead of the Soviet soldier, Finnish was depicted. The city authorities received a warning about "the inadmissibility of violation of the legislation on extremism." This was reported by the Komi prosecutor's office.
The warning of the prosecutor's office says that for violation of the law on countering extremism, the perpetrator can be brought to administrative responsibility.
The poster was dedicated to the Soviet eve-ski battalions, which during the Great Patriotic War fought as part of the Red Army. By mistake of the employees of the Office of the Administration of Usinsk on the poster, the image of not a Soviet, but a Finnish soldier made in 1944, when the Finnish troops participated in the war on the side of fascist Germany. The poster sat down for several hours, then it was removed, and the employees promised to "strictly punish."
The publication "Julia" found the son of a Finnish soldier depicted on a poster. His name is Johanes Halonen. His father, a resident of the Utsyoka, Clement Jouncil Jeremias Halonen - served in the supply troops in Luttauoki and transported a cargo deer as ammunition, products and wounded. The photo was taken by Oswald Hedenstram in 1944.
“At first I thought that this was a joke, but I looked closely and realized that the photo was really taken in Russia. I had to admit that my father was an iron man, so he was listed in Russia. I think he would be pleased if he had learned about this story,” Halonen told the publication.
Historical blunders with posters to Victory Day happen every year in different cities of Russia. For example, in 2019 in Kaliningrad veterans"congratulated" English soldiers from the First World War.