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In Lviv, ATO veterans called the police when they met a young man in a Soviet-era military hat. Criminal proceedings have been opened under the article of the Criminal Code of Ukraine “Production, distribution of communist symbols, Nazis and propaganda of totalitarian communist and National Socialist (Nazi) regimes”.
Today in Lviv, a 19-year-old Kyiv resident wore a hat with communist symbols, now facing up to five years in prison. This was reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Lviv region.
At approximately 4.30 pm, the city police received a message that in one of the cafes on Valovaya Street there was a man displaying forbidden symbols. An operative and investigation group went to the scene and identified the criminal. A cockade hat, depicting a red star with a hammer and sickle, was taken from him.
Investigators initiated criminal proceedings under Part 1 of Art. 436-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (production, distribution of communist and Nazi symbols and propaganda of totalitarian communist and National Socialist (Nazi) regimes).
The maximum punishment provided by the sanction of the article is imprisonment for up to five years with confiscation of property. The pre-trial investigation continues.
The Dilo edition reported that ATO veterans drew the attention of the police to the young man in the Soviet army cap with ear flaps.
According to one of them, Igor Sholtis, the offender said during the arrest that he had bought a hat at a “flea market” because he was cold.
April 9, 2015 The Verkhovna Rada adopted a package of laws on decommunization. They banned Soviet symbols and condemned the communist regime. Laws of May 15, 2015 signed by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, and on May 21 of the same year they entered into force. According to the law, all the streets and settlements, whose names are associated with the communist regime, must be renamed, just as the monuments of the totalitarian era must be dismantled.
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