Stirlitz was allowed to stay!

Not feared, and crushed!

Our fathers and grandfathers of the swastika was not afraid. They shot it with rifles, machine guns, tank guns and howitzers. They bombed it. They carried her down the red square and threw it at the feet of the winners of fascism. They didn't love her, that's for sure. But in his head, no one had come to take her afraid.

Later, while it was alive a generation of soldiers, the swastika is also no bogey. Starred feature films in which the Nazis were similar to these, and therefore wore armbands with a swastika and other German, including SS insignia. Children showed a documentary, which is also missing the swastika: on the wings burning in the ravine downed German aircraft on the armor are destroyed by our "Hunters" "Tigers" and "Panthers" in the buildings of the German commandant in the liberation of the Russian cities and villages... And the children growing up in these harsh years, the swastika also is not scared.

Oddly enough, the abundance of the swastika does not affect the correctness of the child's perception: when the children played "war", nobody wanted to be a fascist. In this game category had to be assigned either in an order or using any counting. Somehow even it is strange, isn't it? After all, if you believe the current educational trends, children, watching the Germans and the swastika, had to immediately join the Nazis, and then the traitors of the Motherland...

But it somehow didn't happen. Maybe just how to properly show a swastika? The right to talk about it and about those who were wearing it. Maybe the reason that honest rejection in society that accompanied any flirtation with Nazism, not tainted by tolerance, talk about freedom of opinion and choice? Hard to say for sure. But the fact remains: at some point the swastika was to scare our statesmen, and it just banned.

Not, of course, with the best of intentions: not to promote, so to say that extremism did not raise his head, to protect children from the corrupting influence of adults from the temptations of too simple solutions. And at first glance it seemed that some kind of logic in this...

But along with a swastika were banned and feature films, many of which were included into gold Fund of our cinema, and important documentary evidence of that terrible era, and some material evidence, important for the history. Moreover, under such a ban that in some cases it could, and administrative arrest to. Well, at relapse and not an administrative...

No more fear

On Tuesday the state Duma adopted amendments to normative-legal acts, the application of which caused the aforementioned problems. It is the law "On immortalizing the Soviet people's Victory in the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945" and the law "On countering extremist activities". Now the display of Nazi swastikas will be possible in the cases when "formed a negative attitude to the ideology of Nazism and there are no signs of propaganda or justification of Nazism".

So now we can watch many favorite movie "Seventeen moments of spring" and even show it to their children without risking to be brought to administrative and even criminal liability. We will be able to store on your computer archival photos of the great Patriotic war, also nothing without breaking. Yes there are caricatures of Kukryniksy will now be rehabilitated, and for viewing them you will not be fined!

If you think that the author exaggerates, then nothing. We have documented cases of bringing to justice the man behind the publication in "VK" photos from the Victory Parade in 1945. Yes, the man escaped with only a fine, but still...


According to some, in 2018, on charges connected with the display of the swastika and other Nazi symbols in Russia was opened in 1639 cases. Yes, the vast majority of them — the administrative and ran fine. Yes, some of it is deserved sanctions law enforcement – alas, extremists and just minded people we still have enough. But a significant part was akin to the case of selling in the Moscow "Children's world" collector's tin soldiers, when it was prosecuted for "inciting hatred and enmity".

It is Clear that once the relevant rules have been taken, as they say, the best of intentions. Someone thought that the government will show respect to the veterans, and someone was really afraid of scary extremists who are about to begin to March at night with torches through the streets of Moscow. But, as you can see, both of these motive, like others, actually turned out to be a figment of the imagination of deputies, "seeing life from the window of a personal car".

The head of the Committee for culture Galina Yampolskaya formulated their claims to specified legal rules:


In this case we can only agree with the wording. Yes, it is"thoughtlessness" when the minor advantages someone could not see (or did not give himself the trouble something to look at) quite noticeable cons. And we hope that members will quickly make the necessary changes to the existing Cao to the new rules become a real guide to action for courts and some government officials.

Would Prohibit Russia's insanity!

On the other hand, insanity in our lifetime will still have a lot. That only is infinite PostScript "banned in Russia", used every time you mention various terrorist organizations. Although there seems to have some grain of truth: can we do someone else does not know that ISIS banned in Russia?

Sometimes, encountering news about a "Russian wife" militants who met with him in social networks, not knowing a word of Arabic, but still believe in fairy tales about the beautiful and just life in bombed-out Mosul, I think that there is no warning in this case will be superfluous. Moreover, sometimes a "wife" not only rushing to the "beloved" five borders, but also drags along a young child.

And at the same time, I understand that there probably will not help has nothing: no warning, no notice, no visit of the district... This contingent, sorry, already incorrigible, and as a man to save him from himself, I must admit I don't know.

But the fact that this phrase long ago became a broken, ineffective, have become the occasion for jokes and scoffing, – fact. And the effect of it, in my opinion, has long been not even zero, and negative.

But still let's finish on a good note. Very pleased that our members show signs of common sense and sane accept amendments to previously enacted controversial laws. Now, without slowing the pace, to continue good practice and to make appropriate amendments to the Constitution, the penal code, the Civil code, the pension legislation, the labour code and in the many laws that we have either to obey or to circumvent.

And for the rehabilitation shtirlitsa great thanks!