Samarets was fined under Art. 354.1 CC

Andrey Shabanov was convicted on chch. 1 and 3 Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code.

On March 1, 2022, the Samara Regional Court passed a sentence on Andrey Shabanov, who was charged under s.ch. 1 and 3 Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (public denial of the facts established by the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal, as well as the dissemination of information expressing clear disrespect for society about the days of military glory and memorable dates of Russia related to the defense of the Fatherland). He was sentenced to a fine of 60 thousand rubles.

The initiation of a criminal case became known in May 2020. In July 2021, the prosecutor's office approved the indictment in the case. It was considered by a jury.

In April and May 2020, Shabanov on his VKontakte page published " records and photographs with texts that deny the facts of the liberation of Europe by the Soviet Union during World War II, contain negative information about the day of Russia's military glory - Victory Day, and also about the symbol of the military glory of Russia - the St. George ribbon .

The reason for the persecution was the publication on VKontakte of an image of St. George ribbons coming out of a meat grinder, with the caption "It's time to start making St. George ribbons edible "; pictures with the inscription " On May 9, 1945, Stalin took away from Hitler the right to repress the peoples of the USSR. Happy Victory Day, strong ones! "; as well as a three-liked post in which he criticized the ways in which VE Day is celebrated, calling it " victory madness ".

According to part 1 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code, Shabanov was accused because on May 8, 2020, he " uploaded a photo image of Adolf Hitler and placed an application for displaying this image on the Immortal Regiment website along with veterans of the Great Patriotic War ."

In court, Shabanov apologized for choosing a harsh form of expression and explained that he considered it unacceptable " the parasitism of the authorities on the people's memory of the War ", and also that " I wanted to demonstrate dangerous parallels between the political regimes of the 30s of the twentieth century in the USSR, Germany and modern Russia ".

We tend to believe that such a qualification of the actions of the accused is incorrect. By itself, uploading photographs of Nazi leaders to the site, even shortly before May 9, is neither a public approval of the crimes of Nazism, nor the dissemination of any information about veterans or the activities of the USSR during the war years, nor the dissemination of any information about memorable dates. or symbols of military glory. Shabanov's publications on VKontakte also did not pursue the goal of justifying Nazism, but were aimed at criticizing, from his point of view, incorrect ways of celebrating Victory Day, and criticizing Stalinism.

Sources

• The court imposed a fine of 60,000 ₽ on a Samaran citizen who uploaded a photo of Adolf Hitler to the site of the Immortal Regiment // Network Freedoms. 2022. March 1.
• Case card No. 2-12/2022 (2-27/2021;) // Website of the Samara Regional Court. 2022. March 2.