A court in Moscow arrested politician Leonid Gozman for 15 days for a 2013 publication.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow arrested politician Leonid Gozman for 15 days because of a post on LiveJournal that he posted in 2013. “Mediazona” is about this.

reports Gozman was found guilty under the article on repeated public identification of the USSR and Nazi Germany (Part 2 of Article 13.48 of the Administrative Code).

“The case is obviously of an ordered nature. This can be seen from the fact that this is supposedly the discovery of a text that was published almost 10 years ago, but it was discovered on September 12, the day before my sentence in the first case ended,” Gozman noted.

On September 13, Gozman was leaving the special detention center, where he spent 15 days under Part 1 of the same article because of a post on Facebook. the arrest came into force, so now Gozman was convicted of repeated violation.

delayed Decision “Hitler is an absolute evil, but Stalin is even worse. The SS were criminals, but the NKVD was even worse, because the security officers killed their own. Hitler started a war with humanity. The communists declared total war on their own people,” said the publication that became the reason for the first case.

The reason for drawing up a new protocol was the publication that SMERSH and the NKVD were no better than the SS and the Gestapo. We are probably talking about, published in 2013 after the release of the TV series “Smersh”. Like SOTAvision, Gozman said in court that the post was not on LiveJournal, but on the Ekho Moskvy website.

the text says “SMERSH did not have a beautiful uniform, but this is perhaps their only difference from the SS troops. <…> I have no doubt, at the same time, that there were honest soldiers in SMERSH. It just happened that they served in a structure no less criminal than the SS,” the politician wrote.

The statement then caused a wide resonance. Gozman’s words were spoken by three relevant State Duma committees, but no sanctions followed.

checked The Moscow City Court approved the decision to arrest Leonid Gozman for 15 days.

September 15 - Leonid Gozman is a Russian public and political figure. Since 2014, he has systematically opposed the actions of the Russian authorities towards Ukraine. In May, the Ministry of Justice added to the register of media outlets as “foreign agents.” introduced - In April, a criminal case was filed against Leonid Gozman due to untimely notification of the migration service about second citizenship (Article 330.2 of the Criminal Code). According to security officials, he did not inform government agencies in time about receiving Israeli citizenship in 2018. Later the same article was sent to his wife Marina Egorova. charged ​