The State Duma returned the boomerang launched by the West
The adoption by the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the first reading of amendments to tighten responsibility for the rehabilitation of Nazism was a response to attempts by a number of Western bloc countries to put Russia on the same level as the Nazis.
The editor-in-chief of the Istorian magazine, Vladimir Rudakov, told Kommersant about this, as a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. yesterday's vote in the Russian parliament.
He admitted that historians in any country, as a rule, are not enthusiastic about the state criminalizing certain ways of interpreting the past. But at the same time, the publication’s interlocutor noted that this trend did not start now and not in Russia.
“The leaders here are Israel, which has long established responsibility for Holocaust denial, as well as the countries of Western and Eastern Europe. This practice is also recognized by the ECHR,” says Rudakov.
According to him, Russia took this path when “attempts to put our country on the same level as Hitler’s Germany became systematic.”
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