{"id":561815,"date":"2026-07-23T11:19:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=561815"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:29:05","slug":"interior-ministry-18-year-old-vitsyebsk-resident-posted-30-000-messages-justifying-nazism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/interior-ministry-18-year-old-vitsyebsk-resident-posted-30-000-messages-justifying-nazism","title":{"rendered":"Interior Ministry: 18-Year-Old Vitsyebsk Resident Posted 30,000 Messages Justifying Nazism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus&#8217; Interior Ministry said it had detained an 18-year-old resident of Vitsyebsk over messages praising Nazism.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, the young man posted more than 30,000 messages in chat groups <em><i>&#8220;with the aim of promoting, justifying and glorifying the Nazi regime, denying its crimes, propagating far-right ideas and glorifying collaborators from the Second World War.&#8221;<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><i>&#8220;He disseminated knowingly false historical information denying Nazi crimes in Khatyn and other settlements in the country, published related images and praised senior officials of Nazi Germany,&#8221;<\/i><\/em> the Interior Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/pressmvd\/23777\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The young man was detained by officers of the Main Directorate for Combating Organised Crime and Corruption with support from the Vityaz special forces unit. Criminal cases have been opened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus&#8217; Interior Ministry said it had detained an 18-year-old resident of Vitsyebsk over messages praising Nazism. According to the ministry, the young man posted more than 30,000 messages in chat groups &#8220;with the aim of promoting, justifying and glorifying the Nazi regime, denying its crimes, propagating far-right ideas and glorifying collaborators from the Second World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":561814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a61d0da1e16f.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Interior Ministry: 18-Year-Old Vitsyebsk Resident Posted 30,000 Messages Justifying Nazism"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561815","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=561815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}