Russian dissident Leonid Guzman arrested for comparing Stalin to Hitler

(EFE) – Russian dissident Leonid Guzman, unlike Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine, has been arrested for comparing Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in a Facebook message to German Adolf Hitler.

“Hitler is the absolute evil, but Stalin is worse. The SS were criminals, but the NKVD was even more terrible, because the Chechens killed themselves. Hitler declared war on humanity. The Communists declared war themselves.” stated in the letter published last April.

Guzman, who was already arrested in July for failing to report his dual Russian-Israeli citizenship, although he was later released, will spend the night in a central Moscow police station, according to his lawyer, Yulia Tregubova, of the OVD. -informations.

As the police reported to TASS, the liberal politician was arrested under Article 13.48 of the Civil Code on determining actions committed by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.

Under the article, Guzmán, who was arrested on his way out of the hospital, could be sentenced to 15 administrative days in prison or fined in cash.

Russian President Vladimir Putin last year enacted a law, approved by the State Duma or the lower house of parliament, banning such comparison.

Under the article, Guzmán, who was arrested on his way out of the hospital, could be sentenced to 15 administrative days in prison or fined in cash.

Guzmán, 72, president of the Liberal Union of Right-Wing Forces, signed a statement in 2014 against Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula.

After the start of the Russian military campaign in Ukraine, he left Russia, but returned in May, when he was declared a “foreign agent”.

Because of the Russian military’s vilification of Ukraine’s “special military operation”, the police arrested the former opposition mayor of Yekaterinburg, Leonid Rosman, last week, although he was later released on charges.

Two other famous Russian dissidents, Ilya Yashin and Vladimir Kara-Murza, are under preventive detention for spreading false information about the armed forces.

In addition, the former director of the Open Russia, Andrei Pivovarov, was sentenced to four years in prison in June for his participation in an “undesirable organization”.

According to OVD-Info, the authorities opened more than 200 criminal cases against Russian citizens for their opposition to the war, seven of which resulted in prison sentences.

The most famous case is the case of Muscovite MP Alexei Gourinov, who was sentenced to seven years in prison for the deaths of Ukrainian children and for calling for the withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine.

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