Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard

15:01:59

12/05/2017

The prosecutor’s office of the Lvov region sent to the court the indictment against a man who propagandized communist ideology. The court imposed a sentence – 2 years 6 months of restricted freedom with a probation period of 1 year. This was reported by the press service in the Lvov region.

From May, 2015, to April, 2016, the suspect spread on Facebook a photo and other materials with symbols and slogans of the communist regime.

The man was charged under Part 1 of Article 436-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine for the production and distribution of communist and Nazi symbols and the promotion of communist and national-socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes.



The young man admitted his guilt and assisted the investigation. The prosecutor’s office concluded with him an agreement on the recognition of guilt, which the court approved on May 4th this year, having imposed the corresponding sentence.

In particular, the specified person was accused of, in the period of time from May, 2015, to April, 2016, using a personal laptop, on the social network “Facebook”, using a pseudonym, deliberately, for the purpose of bringing the communist ideology to a wide range of people, realizing that the specified page has open access and that an unlimited circle of users of the social network “Facebook” can access it, made publications, including in communities of the social network, in which, according to the conclusion of linguistic examination, there is propaganda of elements of communist ideology, which consists of the distribution of the tendentious information directed to the idealization and promoting of the communist ideology and in public using subjects with symbols of the communist regime. This concerns publications devoted to V. I. To Lenin, i.e. the person who held a senior position in the supreme authorities in the USSR, his philosophical and political quotes, and also shared known to all communist slogans: “Lenin lived, Lenin is living, Lenin will live forever!”; “The plan is the law, fulfillment is duty, over-fulfillment is honor!”

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