A case was opened against a former St. Petersburg State University teacher who was fired for criticizing the war for the rehabilitation of Nazism.

Mikhail Belousov, a former lecturer at the Faculty of History at St. Petersburg State University (SPbSU), has become a defendant in the case of the rehabilitation of Nazism. This is with reference to the press service of the Investigative Committee reports the publication 78.ru.

According to investigators, on February 22, during a meeting of the student council, Belousov “denied the connection between Hitler’s racial theory and the course of the Great Patriotic War,” and also spoke about the falsification of history.

According to Fontanka, the criminal case was opened on June 26. Belousov himself told the publication that he did not know anything about this.

Mikhail Belousov was fired from St Petersburg University in early June. The Ethics Commission of the Academic Council of the University came to the conclusion that the teacher "offended the memory of those who died in the line of military duty."

On April 1, 2023, died a second-year student at St Petersburg University, 21-year-old Fyodor Solomonov, in Ukraine - he went to the front as a volunteer. Teacher Belousov “instead of honoring the memory of our university student, showing normal human feelings, considered it appropriate to sneer at what happened, defame the student’s memory,” the Ethics Commission said in a statement.

from St Petersburg University for their anti-war position Several students were expelled . All of them supported the ex-docent of the university Belousov. The university then stated that statements against the war in Ukraine violated the code of the educational institution, "are incompatible with the status of a student" and could become the basis for expulsion.

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