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The Prosecutor General’s Office has announced criminal prosecution of a 39-year-old woman from Minsk over her YouTube channel. She is accused of “rehabilitation of Nazism.”
“During the analysis of internet resources, the Prosecutor General’s Office identified instances of such ‘authorial’ interpretation of historical events of the Great Patriotic War on the YouTube video hosting platform. Following the study of the collected information, a criminal case was opened under Part 3 of Article 130-1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus for deliberate actions aimed at the rehabilitation of Nazism.
According to the case materials, a 39-year-old native of Minsk, conditionally identified as K. and V. — she has a double surname — while outside Belarus, together with other individuals on a systematic basis produced and posted videos on a publicly accessible platform in the form of educational lectures. In them she manipulated certain facts from the country’s history. At the same time, as the host of the podcast she presented herself as a competent person with knowledge of this historical period,” said Dzmitry Bryleu, head of a department at the Prosecutor General’s Office.
Prosecutors said that some of the videos contained “fabrications in which the suspect glorified Nazi criminals and their accomplices, including representatives of nationalist collaborationist formations (‘Auxiliary Police,’ ‘Belarusian Central Council’ and others), deliberately praised them as well as the crimes they committed against the civilian population of the BSSR.” The woman allegedly also praised Wilhelm Kube.
The case has been transferred to the central office of the Investigative Committee for investigation.
The name of the YouTube channel was not disclosed in the statement.