In Nizhnevartovsk, police detained a local resident Alexander Korolyov because of a post published in 2017. He himself reported this to OVD-Info.
In the post in question, Korolev compared the political regimes of Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. He is charged with the public identification of the USSR and Nazi Germany (Article 13.48 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The queen was detained at the exit from work, now he is in the police department.
The law on fines for public identification of the role of the USSR and Nazi Germany in World War II was adopted by the State Duma in April 2022. For this violation, a fine in the amount of 1-2 thousand rubles or an administrative arrest for up to 15 days is due.
At the end of August, opposition politician Leonid Gozman was arrested under this article. The reason for initiating the case was the publication in which Gozman wrote that Hitler was an absolute evil, but Stalin was even worse. According to the politician, the NKVD is worse than the SS, "because the Chekists killed their own." In mid-September, he was arrested again under the same article – this time for a post in 2013, where Gozman compared SMERSH fighters with SS formations.