The Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia is checking former servicemen of Nazi Germany living in other countries for involvement in the genocide of the peoples of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War. This was announced on Wednesday, October 20, by the official representative of the department, Andrei Ivanov.
“Documentation of the facts of the deliberate destruction of the civilian Soviet population is carried out by identifying archival materials in federal, regional and municipal archives, as well as fixing eyewitness accounts of crimes,” he quoted him as saying “RIA News“.
Earlier, on September 6, the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Igor Krasnov said that Russia had prepared a draft law that would normatively fix the concepts of “Nazism”, “Fascism” and “Genocide of the peoples of the Soviet Union.” According to the Prosecutor General, this bill also provides for the regulation of the legal status of a complex of archival documents, film and photographic materials dedicated to the Second World War.
At the same time, Krasnov announced that the Prosecutor General’s Office was preparing appeals to the courts to recognize the facts of the genocide of Nazi crimes against civilians in the Bryansk and Rostov regions.
In addition, he proposed to legislatively perpetuate the memory of the people of the USSR, who suffered during the Second World War, specifying that the provisions of the current law apply exclusively to citizens who died in the performance of military duty and combat missions during hostilities.
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