{"id":499090,"date":"2025-11-28T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T11:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=499090"},"modified":"2025-11-28T15:47:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:47:35","slug":"prosecutors-label-christmas-ornaments-featuring-larysa-hienijus-as-rehabilitation-of-nazism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/prosecutors-label-christmas-ornaments-featuring-larysa-hienijus-as-rehabilitation-of-nazism","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors Label Christmas Ornaments Featuring Larysa Hieniju\u0161 as \u201cRehabilitation of Nazism\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christmas ornaments depicting Larysa Hieniju\u0161<\/b>, sold in the Minsk shop \u201cKalyadnaya Krama,\u201d have been deemed \u201crehabilitation of Nazism.\u201d This wording appears in a press release from the Minsk Prosecutor\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

“During online monitoring, the Prosecutor\u2019s Office of the Savetski District of Minsk discovered offers to purchase products associated with the rehabilitation of Nazism at one of the capital\u2019s shops and demanded they be removed from sale. It was established that the shop publicly displayed and offered for purchase Christmas ornaments featuring Larysa Hieniju\u0161,”<\/i> the statement said.<\/p>\n

Authorities emphasized that Larysa Hieniju\u0161 had been convicted by a ruling of the Supreme Court of the BSSR on 7 February 1949 under Articles 66 and 76 of the BSSR Criminal Code (1928 edition) for \u201ctreason\u201d and \u201cparticipation in an anti-Soviet organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

“During the Second World War she was in Czechoslovakia and participated in drafting an appeal by \u2018Belarusians of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia\u2019 to Adolf Hitler. Her activities were closely linked with Nazi propaganda on occupied Belarusian lands. The issue of Hieniju\u0161\u2019s rehabilitation has been raised repeatedly, yet the Supreme Court has found no grounds for it,”<\/i> prosecutors stated.<\/p>\n

The ornaments were produced by the shop\u2019s parent organization.<\/p>\n

The Deputy Prosecutor of the Savetski District issued a directive to the shop director demanding the removal of \u201cviolations\u201d and the withdrawal of the items from sale under legislation on \u201cpreventing the rehabilitation of Nazism.\u201d<\/p>\n

The supervisory order has been fully executed, the press release noted.<\/p>\n

At the instruction of the district prosecutor\u2019s office, the police are conducting a pre-investigation check under Article 174 of the Criminal Procedure Code. The progress of the inquiry is under prosecutorial supervision.<\/p>\n

Earlier it became known that police had opened a review into \u201cKalyadnaya Krama\u201d on Koltsova Street after the shop released a series of Christmas ornaments featuring portraits of Belarusian writers and cultural figures, including Larysa Hieniju\u0161. The ornament drew attention from propagandists Ksenia Lebedeva<\/b>, Grigory Azarenok<\/b>, and Olga Bondareva<\/b>. As a result, the ornament with the poet\u2019s portrait was removed from sale, and the shop announced a temporary pause in operations.<\/p>\n

Later, Bondareva published an official reply from the Savetski District administration stating that Minsk City Executive Committee had received complaints alleging that the sale of ornaments featuring Hieniju\u0161 supposedly \u201crehabilitates Nazism.\u201d The letter also noted that the police were conducting a review and would provide a legal assessment. It added that certain violations of a Council of Ministers decree had reportedly been identified at the shop and were corrected as of 21 November. The shop remains closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christmas ornaments depicting Larysa Hieniju\u0161, sold in the Minsk shop \u201cKalyadnaya Krama,\u201d have been deemed \u201crehabilitation of Nazism.\u201d This wording appears in a press release from the Minsk Prosecutor\u2019s Office. “During online monitoring, the Prosecutor\u2019s Office of the Savetski District of Minsk discovered offers to purchase products associated with the rehabilitation of Nazism at one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":499027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/692999f0cd640.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Prosecutors Label Christmas Ornaments Featuring Larysa Hieniju\u0161 as \u201cRehabilitation of Nazism\u201d"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}