The Russian Supreme Court upheld yesterday the decision of a Perm regional court, which had found blogger Vladimir Luzgin guilty of the "rehabilitation of Nazism" for reposting a text on social media that described the invasion of Poland in 1939, TASS reports. The regional court had also fined Luzgin 200,000 rubles (around $3,000).
According to Novaya Gazeta, the text described the joint invasion of Poland by the USSR and the Third Reich in September 1939, which followed the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Pact, a neutrality agreement, included a secret protocol that carved up much of Eastern Europe into Soviet and Nazi "spheres of influence." http://www.tol.org/client/article/26273-russia-supreme-court-luzgin-19 39-ussr-poland-nazi-germany-molotov-ribbentrop.html http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2016/08/23/statement-prime-minister-canada-bl ack-ribbon-day # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
