Criminal responsibility for the rehabilitation of Nazism in Russia
At the end of last week, State Duma deputies in the 1 reading adopted a bill that, in fact, complements the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The essence of the bill is connected with the introduction of criminal liability for those persons who a) deny the facts established by the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal;
b) approve or try to justify the crimes of Nazism;
c) distribute disinformation (false information) about the activities of Soviet soldiers and state structures of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War (World War II).
According to the bill, the punishment that can be incurred by persons involved in the actual rehabilitation of fascism and Nazism is either a fine of up to 300 thousand rubles, or imprisonment for up to 3 years.
There is an addition to the bill. It concerns the possible spread by mass media and public platforms by one or another person of a position rehabilitating Nazi crimes. In this case, the violator of the law will face either a fine of up to half a million rubles, or imprisonment for up to five years. In addition, a person who is convicted by a court under such an article may be deprived of the right to conduct certain activities and occupy certain posts (public, political, teaching posts).
Thus, a law appears in Russia that is capable of forcing persons engaged in, let's say, an interpretation beneficial to certain forces. historical processes (at least, processes of the Second World War), to be fully responsible for their words. That is, if someone from the so-called liberal alternative historians, journalists, "human rights activists" and representatives of political forces wakes up the idea to whitewash fascist crimes or, for example, to identify the actions of Nazi Germany with the actions of the Soviet Union during the Second World War, then such people will have to think three times whether to launch their crazy ideas to the masses or leave them exclusively in their inflamed brain.
As expected, after passing the first reading of the bill in the State Duma, a circle of gentlemen emerged who took hostility with the document. It turns out that people who are opposed to such a bill give themselves away, as they say, with giblets. Well, in fact - could a law of criminality for the denial of Nazi crimes during the Second World War cause any negative reaction from a sane person? A sane person doesn’t, because a sane person, and in Russia, fortunately, the majority, the very words “Nazism” and “fascism” cause, to put it mildly, rejection. But it can cause just such a reaction in the society of those who are looking for any reason to once again raise their whine, trying to rewrite the history of the country at the same time, erase the memory of the Great Victory from it or douse this Victory with ultra-liberal slops ...
Here are a few comments that were set up by representatives of the permanent audience of Ekho Moskvy radio station. Apparently, these people struck a law for living ...
jujwish:
Well, why are they petty, are these deputies lousy? Putting mouths to all citizens of Putlerland — and all the love! But don't say that, don't deny it, don't propagandize it ...
abc_2011:
Recently, all that Russia is doing is violence against the mind, over the very essence of the civilization of people ...
Apparently, these gentlemen literally daily tempt to deny, propagandize and reflect on violence over the mind, since a reasonable law causes urine to hit them in the head. Well, if the mind itself is already raped many times, then such injuries should be taken into account in the medical record ...
It is interesting that the same gentlemen, who were so excitedly disturbed by the draft law under consideration, for some reason do not recall that in a number of countries such laws have been in force for several decades. If you do not remember yourself, then you need to remind them.
For example, in Israel, since 1986, a law has been in effect whereby it is possible to get "five" not only for denying crimes against Jews during the Second World War, but also for quoting: the derogation of the actions of Nazi criminals.
In Austria, a law criminalizing the denial, downplay and justification of Nazi crimes committed during the Second World War is valid from 1947. At the same time, it is in Austria that the most serious criminal legislation is in effect. For denying Nazi crimes, you can go to jail for up to 10 years, and if you openly propagandize the activities of national criminals, the court can, by law, send you to rethink their positions for all 20 years!
In Germany, for denying, diminishing or propagating Nazi crimes can be obtained up to 5 years in prison. At the same time, it is Germany that is the world leader in the number of criminal cases involving attempts by certain individuals to rehabilitate Nazi crimes. Over the past fifteen years in Germany 8 people have been found guilty by the courts under articles that criminalize the rehabilitation of Nazism. The courts for the same period of time convicted in Austria, Switzerland, France and other European and not only European countries. So in 2009, the Austrian writer Honzik was imprisoned for 5 for years for presenting “proof of absence” of gas chambers at Auschwitz. The court considered the “evidence” as blatant disinformation, and sent Honzik to the place where the writer was able to ponder his “evidence base” in proud solitude ...
That is, in a number of foreign countries, such a law works in full, and in Russia, you see, it causes indignation among a certain circle of people. Well, if you are so much pulling at denying, belittling and promoting, you can always go to those countries where responsibility for this is not provided. Nobody, as they say, holds. Won in Latvia and Estonia, their clowns participating in marches of SS veterans are less and less, and, therefore, for domestic deniers and detractors, there is always the opportunity to join their ranks.
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