A criminal case was opened against an Odessa flag hanging on a house

The Odessa region police initiated criminal proceedings for the use of Soviet symbols. The case was brought against a resident of the region who hung the Soviet flag on the roof of the house.

It is reported by the press service of the police and the region.

“On May 1, a 52-year-old resident of one of the district’s villages on the roof of his own house hung a red flag with communist symbols prohibited by Ukrainian law,” police said.

The man explained that in this way he wanted to celebrate International Labor Day.

The police took the flag from the offender, and information on this fact was entered into the Unified Registry of Preliminary Investigations under Part 1 of Art. 436-1 (production, dissemination of communist, Nazi symbols and propaganda of communist totalitarian regimes and National Socialists (Nazis) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

Said actions are punishable by restriction of liberty for a period of up to five years or imprisonment for the same period, with or without confiscation of property.

Strana previously wrote that in February this year, Lvov Mayor Andrei Sadovoy refused to transfer the remains of a hero who died in 1944 to Russia.

Kuznetsov’s relatives asked the Ukrainian authorities for the transfer after repeated abuse of vandals on his grave.

We also write that Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the prospects for deep integration in the post-Soviet space and the reconstruction of the USSR.