For public identification of actions: Putin signed the law on responsibility for comparing the USSR and Nazi Germany

Vladimir Putin signed a law that introduces responsibility for identifying the actions of the USSR and Nazi Germany.

The document is posted on a single portal of legal information.

According to the federal law, a new article is introduced into the Code of Administrative Offenses at number 13.48, which concerns violations of the ban on publicly identifying the actions of the leadership, command and military personnel of the USSR with the actions of the leadership and military personnel of Nazi Germany and European Axis countries during World War II, and also to the denial of the decisive role of the Soviet people in the defeat of Nazi Germany and the humanitarian mission of the USSR in the liberation of European countries.

Violation of the law will entail the imposition of a fine on citizens in the amount of 1,000 to 2,000 rubles or administrative arrest for up to 15 days.

The punishment for officials will be from 2,000 to 4,000 rubles, for legal entities - from 10,000 to 50,000 rubles.

In case of repeated violation, the punishment will be more severe.

For citizens, the fine will range from 2.5 thousand to 5 thousand rubles, and arrest for up to 15 days can be applied.

For officials, the fine is set at around 5,000 rubles to 20,000 rubles.

The amount of recovery from legal entities will be from 50 thousand to 100 thousand rubles, and an administrative suspension of activities for up to 90 days is also possible.

The new document regulates responsibility for violating the previously introduced prohibition to identify the goals, decisions and actions of the Soviet leadership with the actions of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Vladimir Putin signed this document on July 1, 2021.

The President supported the introduction of relevant measures during the meeting of the Council for Culture and Art on October 27, 2020.

During the conversation with the participants of the meeting, the President commented on the proposal of the head of the Committee on Culture of the Lower House of Parliament, Elena Yampolskaya.

The deputy called the equation of the USSR and Nazi Germany "a desecration of historical memory."

“If in some countries criminal punishment is provided for the denial of the Armenian genocide, God himself ordered us to turn on appropriate mechanisms to protect the truth about the very recent past,” Putin replied.

The presidential instructions following the meeting of the Council for Culture and Art were published in January 2021.

In them, Putin ordered to prepare for the introduction of "changes aimed at establishing a ban on public identification of the role of the USSR and Nazi Germany in World War II (1939-1945)" in the legislation.

The speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin was appointed responsible for the implementation of the order.

In May of the same year, the bill was submitted to the State Duma for consideration, and on June 23 it was approved by the Federation Council.

The bill on fines for these violations entered the lower house of parliament on October 27, 2021.

The Federation Council approved the document on April 13, 2022.

“They are almost accusing the USSR with Nazi Germany of starting a war”

It should be noted that the president has previously spoken out about the inadmissibility of a new interpretation of the history of the Second World War.

In an interview with TASS in March 2020, the head of state noted that the European Parliament "carries all sorts of garbage about the equal responsibility of Hitler and Stalin."

The President called such statements "nonsense."

In addition, in December 2019, during a meeting of the Pobeda organizing committee, Putin spoke about the resolution of the European Parliament “On the importance of preserving historical memory for the future of Europe.”

“You know for sure that the recent resolution of the European Parliament actually put both the Nazi aggressors and the Soviet Union on the same level.

Almost accuse the USSR along with Nazi Germany of unleashing the Second World War.

It’s as if they forgot who attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941,” Putin said.

He stressed that Russia will continue to "talk about the events, facts of the Great Patriotic War, open and publish archival materials in their entirety."

“I am convinced that there are no and cannot be “unprofitable”, “inconvenient” pages in history.

It is needed in the aggregate, as a whole, both for us and for future generations, which is especially important, and without any embellishment or flaws, ”Putin concluded.