Detained in Russia on suspicion of \u201crehabilitating Nazism\u201d is a 23-year-old woman who made a mockery of a Stalingrad monument in a video. The lady may spend up to five years in prison if found guilty.<\/p>\n
The event took place at The Motherland Calls, a well-known monument honouring one of the bloodiest battles of the Great Patriotic War that stands overlooking Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad. The monument represents the perseverance of the Soviet people during the war, which claimed over a million Soviet lives and raged from August 1942 to February 1943.<\/p>\n
The accused woman was shown laughing and imitating the act of groping the figure\u2019s breasts in the video which resulted in her imprisonment. The Russian Investigative Committee\u2019s local branch officials considered her actions to be \u201cimmoral and cynical,\u201d demeaning a historically significant emblem.<\/p>\n
Authorities filed a criminal prosecution against the woman after the footage was made public. She tried to escape punishment by leaving Russia, and as a result, her name was added to a wanted list. Her escape\u00a0was short-lived, nevertheless, as she was detained this week upon her return to the nation at a Moscow airport.<\/p>\n
A court hearing is set on March 9 and the accused is presently being kept in pre-trial detention. The Soviet people\u2019s tenacity and sacrifice during the Battle of Stalingrad continue to make it a crucial turning point in World War II. The monument in question is evidence of the Soviet Union\u2019s resolve at a pivotal juncture in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A 23-year-old Russian woman who was arrested for making fun of a Stalingrad monument could serve up to five years behind bars. After being judged \u201cimmoral,\u201d her video resulted in an arrest and criminal prosecution when she returned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":14529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[281,78,9440,9441,9438,9443,9442,9439,101],"class_list":["post-14528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","tag-moscow","tag-russia","tag-stalingrad","tag-the-great-patriotic-war","tag-the-motherland-calls","tag-the-russian-investigative-committee","tag-the-soviet-union","tag-volgograd","tag-world-war-ii"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}