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Putin: “History is war.”
LAAS LEIVAT
In June 2016, 37-year-old Vladimir Luzgin was found guilty in court of “rehabilitating Nazism” and fined 200,000 roubles (approx. $2500 US at the time).
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He had shared an article online that was based on the August 23, 1939 Molotov- Ribbentrop Pact (MRP), in which the Soviet Union had agreed as an ally with Nazi-Germany to invade Poland and others later.
The court declared that Luzgin had ‘knowingly shared false information’, a finding upheld by the Russian Supreme Court. The decision followed a law passed by the Russian Parliament in 2014 which crimi nalized anything that ‘desecrates Russian military glory’.
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