A bill on criminal liability for denial of genocide during the Great Patriotic War will be submitted to the State Duma. The newspaper reports this “News” with a link to the document.
According to the publication, the bill will be submitted to the State Duma on February 20.
It was announced that similar facts have been identified by courts in 13 regions of Russia since 2020: St. Petersburg, Crimea, Krasnodar and Stavropol regions, Novgorod, Pskov, Oryol, Bryansk, Leningrad, Belgorod, Voronezh, Smolensk and Moscow regions.
At the beginning of February, it was reported that the Kursk Regional Court had reached its decision. last meeting In case the crimes of the Nazis and their accomplices in the region during the Great Patriotic War are recognized as genocide.
The judge accepted the application prepared and sent to the court on behalf of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Igor Krasnov, the press service of the “Without Limitation Statute” project reported. Thus, the actions of the Nazi invaders and their accomplices on the territory of the Kursk region in 1941-1943 were recognized as genocide against national, ethnic and racial groups of the peoples of the Soviet Union. Moreover, the crimes they committed were called a plan to exterminate the local population by exiling and exterminating it for the purpose of colonizing the region.
Previously in Minsk presented School textbooks about the genocide of the Belarusian people.