A 56-year-old resident of Minsk will stand trial under an article on denying the genocide of the Belarusian people. He attracted the attention of the Main Directorate for Combating Organised Crime and Corruption (HUBAZiK) after comments on the social network Threads.
According to the case materials, in May 2025 the Minsk resident found a series of articles about the Great Patriotic War on Threads. He left several comments “denying the existence of Hitler’s Generalplan Ost as one of the stages of the genocide of the Belarusian people,” the Investigative Committee reports.
The man was detained by HUBAZiK officers. During questioning, he explained that he had tried to find the original text of the document on the internet and, after failing to do so, concluded that Generalplan Ost had been invented by the Communist Party of the USSR. He stated that he was unaware of the version of the plan published in the public domain in the US National Archives and of the translation of comments and amendments to it in the National Archives of Belarus. The man also claimed that the actions of German troops toward Belarusian civilians were a response to the partisan movement and resistance.
The Minsk resident has been charged under Part 1 of Article 130-2 of the Criminal Code (denial of the genocide of the Belarusian people in information posted on the global computer network Internet). He remains in custody.