In the Mogilev region of Belarus, an 18-year-old local resident was arrested, according to investigators, who published comments denying the recognized historical facts about the systematic extermination of the BSSR population by Nazi invaders.
The young man also denied the existence of the Nazi Ost master plan, reported the news, citing a report from the regional prosecutor's office.
For such actions, the country's law provides for sanctions in the form of arrest, restriction or imprisonment of up to 5 years. The criminal case is being conducted by the Office of the Mogilev Regional Investigation Committee.
The Ost Master Plan was Nazi Germany's strategy for mass displacement, enslavement, and extermination of the peoples of the conquered territories of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Victims included Jews, Slavs, and other ethnic groups, including the mass extermination of up to 30 million Soviet citizens and the physical extermination of Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Bulgarians, and other peoples.
Previously, the Supreme Court of Belarus issued a verdict in the case of Alexander Ermolchik, a Nazi collaborator who died in the 1980s. He was convicted of genocide during the Great Patriotic War.
