Russia is to criminalise comparisons of Stalinism with Nazism, president Vladimir Putin has said. “I agree with your suggestion,” he told Russian MP Elena Yampolskaya, who proposed it at a cultural event, Kommersant reports.
“God himself ordered us, probably, to include appropriate mechanisms to protect the very recent past,” Putin said.
The European Parliament has declared 23 August as a “European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism”.
