“A few dozen people”: the IC established those involved in posting Nazi photos on the site of the “Immortal Regiment online”

A circle of persons involved in an attempt to post on the sites of the Immortal Regiment Online campaign of photographs of the leaders of Nazi Germany was established. This was reported by the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia Svetlana Petrenko.

“The investigation established the IP addresses from which attempts were made to host inaccurate content, as well as their owners. Several dozens of people were involved in committing unlawful acts, mainly foreign citizens. However, among the suspects at the moment, more than 10 citizens living in different regions of the Russian Federation have been identified, ”Petrenko said.

According to the agency, the purpose of such actions is to approve the crimes of the Nazi regime established by the verdict of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg.

As Petrenko added, the main investigative department of the UK investigates criminal cases on the grounds of a crime under Part 1 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code ("Rehabilitation of Nazism"). The investigation continues, the search for identified persons is ongoing.

Recall, on May 12, a press conference was held on the preliminary results of the project “Immortal Regiment Online”, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. When organizing the action, in which about 3 million people took part, attempts were made to desecrate the memory of Soviet soldiers who died in the war.

“During the moderation, volunteers recorded glaring cases of insulting the feat of the Soviet people. So, instead of photos of veterans of World War II, some users sent images of cartoon characters and, worst of all, ideologists, leaders and officers of Nazi Germany. Such requests were blocked by volunteers and professional historians, ”explained Olga Amelchenkova, chairman of the central headquarters of the All-Russian public movement“ Victory Volunteers ”.

In addition, the site of the Immortal Regiment Online campaign was hacked. The organization’s specialists found that 646 unique IP addresses were involved. Of these, 64% of the servers were located in Europe, including Ukraine, another 27% - in North America and 3% - in Asia. Hacker attacks from Russia were also recorded.

In turn, the head of the executive committee of the all-Russian public movement “Immortal Regiment of Russia” Artyom Khutorskoy emphasized that all the data collected on people who tried to download profiles with photos of Nazis and war criminals will be transferred to the UK.

“We will not leave unpunished these attempts to overshadow the celebration of the Great Victory on the day of its 75th anniversary,” he added.

As follows from the results of a survey of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM), 83% of respondents condemned the attempt by unknown persons to publish photos of the Nazis during the campaign "Immortal Regiment". At the same time, 20% of respondents believe that supporters of the ideas of Nazism and fascism are behind the incident.

“Among the punishments that the organizers and participants of this provocation should bear, respondents most often called deprivation of Russian citizenship (29%), criminal punishment (26%), as well as a fine (23%), restriction of Internet access to the person who posted these photos (22%), ”the report said.

Note that the procession is broadcast on the sites of the Immortal Regiment of Russia and the International Immortal Regiment, on the social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, as well as in the online cinema Okko. More than 12.5 million people have already watched it.

Earlier, the Investigative Committee announced the initiation of criminal cases on the fact that photos of Nazi criminals were posted on the websites of the Immortal Regiment Online campaign. 

The investigation found that no later than May 10, 2020, unknown persons posted on the Internet a photograph of SS Himmler, who was accompanied by a comment that allegedly Colonel Alekseev V.M.

Another incident occurred no later than May 3. Then unidentified persons posted on the Bank of Memory website a questionnaire with a picture of Adolf Hitler, noting in a comment that it was a member of the Great Patriotic War, Gitle Adol Aloiso.