VChK-OGPU and TASS: A criminal case was opened against Memorial employees for the rehabilitation of Nazism

A criminal case was opened against several Memorial employees under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). The telegram channel “VChK-OGPU” associated with the security forces talks about this.

reports According to the investigation, “employees of the company acted in order to publicly deny the facts established by the verdict of the International Military Tribunal” and disseminated “deliberately false information about the activities of the USSR during the Second World War, using the media.”

Information about the initiation of the TASS case. According to the publication's unnamed interlocutor, the reason was that Memorial allegedly included in the lists of repressed persons people who collaborated with the occupiers during the Great Patriotic War.

18:00 ” the Memorial Society confirmed in its telegram channel the news about the initiation of a criminal case: “Never in its activities, statements and publications has International Memorial denied or cast doubt on the conclusions of the Nuremberg Tribunal.

20:18 commented The channel also noted that Memorial was liquidated and therefore the “employees” of the society simply do not exist. No one from Memorial received any official confirmation of this news.

The title has been changed due to new information. - In November 2021, the prosecutor's office filed claims with the Moscow City Court for liquidation and with the Supreme Court for liquidation. The reason was numerous violations of the law on “foreign agents” that the organizations allegedly committed. On December 28, the Supreme Court of the International Society "Memorial", and on December 29, the Moscow City Court adopted a similar decision in relation to the Human Rights Center "Memorial". The human rights center "Memorial" "International Memorial" decided to liquidate the decision - on December 29, 2021, the European Court of Human Rights demanded that Russia suspend the execution of the decisions to liquidate "Memorials" until the ECHR considers the complaint of Russian NGOs against the law on "foreign agents" " Despite this, the liquidation decisions came into force. On May 20, 2022, the website of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, and on June 2 of the same Moscow City Court to the center to suspend the liquidation. blocked refused