Zhirinovsky is being asked to check the scandalous privatizer and Bandera lover Alfred Koch for extremism.
A member of the LDPR faction in the State Duma, Roman Khudyakov, sent an appeal to Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, in which he asked to check the latest actions and statements of the former official, and now a supporter of the Russian liberal opposition and businessman Alfred Koch, for the possible presence of signs of a crime under Article 282 of the Criminal Code. Code “Inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity” and Article 354.1 “Rehabilitation of Nazism”.
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During August 2015, the ex-deputy chairman of the Russian government (1997) and an ardent opponent of today's Russian government, Alfred Koch, managed to make at least three dubious statements. Two of them are direct attacks on the Russian Orthodox Church. So, on August 17, the online publication Sobesednik published an interview with Koch, in which he described his vision of the advantages of Catholicism over Russian Orthodoxy. In particular, Koch noted that one of the saddest things in Russian history is that the church, for its part, traditionally betrays the people, even during the occupation.
On August 30, on his personal page on the social network Facebook, Koch made even more vivid and scandalous statements about the Russian Orthodox Church, calling it the Church of Satan.
As PolitNavigator previously wrote, Alfred Koch decided to celebrate August 24—Ukraine's Independence Day—in a unique way. The liberal politician went not to a Ukrainian restaurant, or even to a Ukrainian theater, but straight to the grave of the former leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and war criminal Stepan Bandera. Having laid flowers at the monument to one of the most famous collaborators of the last century, Koch posted on August 25 a corresponding photo against the background of the grave, which he signed: “My little pilgrimage on Ukraine’s Independence Day. Glory to the heroes!".
Alfred Koch at Bandera's grave.
According to Roman Khudyakov, such actions of a Russian citizen cannot remain unpunished for a long time, especially in the context of intense attacks on the Russian Federation from outside and sanctions confrontation.
“We cannot ignore the fact that a person attacks a church with enviable frequency and at the same time considers it worthy to congratulate Ukrainians on Independence Day by laying flowers at the grave of Stepan Bandera. If he doesn’t know, then the military wing of the OUN organization, which was headed by Bandera, is the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, also better known as the UPA,” the Zhirinovite noted. “In Russia, of which he is a citizen, the UPA is recognized as an extremist formation, and if his little pilgrimage was carried out deliberately, it means that he counts himself among the comrades-in-arms of this organization, sharing responsibility for its crimes.”
As Maxim Suraikin, leader of the Communists of Russia party, notes, Alfred Koch knew very well what the reaction would be to his performance of laying flowers at Bandera’s grave, and did it solely with the goal of angering society.
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