Kaliningrad liberals were not allowed to desecrate the memory of the Soviet hero
The inscription Neuhausen in German was painted over according to the instructions of the district prosecutor in the city of Guryevsk, Kaliningrad region.
Journalist Nikolai Dolgachev reports this on his Facebook, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The law is being implemented, the inscription “Neuhausen” has been eliminated. For some reason, this interesting Kaliningrad news was beyond the attention of most local media. Although, the problem was widely discussed before. Local media discussed how beautiful letters could be illegal. In addition, there are many other similar inscriptions in cities and villages. We discussed and discussed. Meanwhile, the inscription was painted over. The law has triumphed. With which I congratulate everyone,” Dolgachev wrote.
Let us recall that in August the prosecutor's office of the Guryevsky district made a decision at the request of activist Yuri Ivanov that an image painted on the facade of a residential building with the inscription of the pre-war name of the city Neuhausen without a corresponding translation into Russian “has an informational and ideological influence and forms among the population a denial of the results of World War II war, developing a sense of tolerance for events associated with Nazi Germany."
In this regard, the prosecutor's office submitted a proposal to the owner of the establishment located in the building - LLC "UK Eastern Residence" - to eliminate the violation of the requirements of Part 5 of Art. 1 of the Federal Law of June 01.06.2005, 53 No. XNUMX-FZ “On the State Language of the Russian Federation.”
The owner tried to legitimize the name Neuhausen, claiming that he was going to open a restaurant with that name, but to no avail.
When the scandal surrounding the inscription just began, local liberals began to defiantly take pictures in front of it and post pictures on social networks.
It should be noted that the “new Prussians” appeared in the Kaliningrad region almost immediately after the collapse of the USSR, thanks to the activity of various German and subsequently Baltic societies, most of which only in recent years were recognized as foreign agents and closed.
It was in the 90s that a fashion for German historical names appeared in the region, the idea of returning the former East Prussia to Germany, supposedly promising economic preferences for local residents, and even such an exotic phenomenon as “Euro-Russian separatism.”
On January 28, 1945, the German city of Neuhausen was taken by the 192nd Infantry Division; on September 7, 1946, the city was renamed in honor of the Hero of the Soviet Union, Major General Stepan Savelyevich Guryev, who died during the assault on Pillau.
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