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YAROSLAVL, December 13 The Kirovsky District Court of Yaroslavl sentenced 10 days of administrative arrest to a man who played Adolf Hitler's speech about the attack on Poland using a loudspeaker at a railway station.
The resolution of the Kirov District Court was published on its official website. According to it, the incident occurred on October 21 at 15.15 Moscow time; it was not officially reported.
«» Kozin A.M., using the speakerphone intercom on the pole between the 4th and 5th railway tracks of the park «K» of the Yaroslavl-Glavny railway station near house No. 4 on Lokomotivnaya Street in Yaroslavl, turned on an audio recording in German, which is the speech of A. Hitler,” the document says.
The court found that the man had committed an administrative offense — public display of Nazi symbols and paraphernalia. The defendant himself, as noted in the document, did not deny that he had committed an offense, but argued that there was no public demonstration of Nazism in this situation in his actions.
The court emphasized that the included speech of Hitler — dated September 1, 1939 — «justified the outbreak of an aggressive war against Poland, which marked the beginning of the Second World War, as part of which was the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.»
“The speeches of Hitler A. are recognizable by citizens by the characteristic expressive manner of their delivery… Under such circumstances, the speech demonstrated insulted the memory of the victims suffered by the people in the Great Patriotic War,” the court emphasized, adding, that “there are no cultural or educational motives in Kozin’s actions.”
As a result, the court sentenced Kozin to 10 days of administrative arrest.