Ukrainian police opened a criminal case against a 19-year-old resident of Kiev for wearing a cap with earflaps with Soviet symbols. This was reported by TASS citing the press service of the Lviv region police department.
The police received a message that in one of the cafes in Lviv there is a man with communist symbols on his hat. Police officers detained the guy and seized his cap with a badge, which depicts a hammer and sickle in a red star.
A criminal case was opened against the Ukrainian under Part 1 of Article 436-1: “Production, distribution of communist, Nazi symbols and propaganda of communist and national socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes”, the maximum punishment for which is imprisonment up to five years with confiscation of property.
Earlier, in the village of Osipenko, Zaporozhye region, on a pedestal, where several years ago there was a monument to the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, put a sculpture Jesus Christ .
Since May 2015, Ukraine has a law on decommunization. It provides for a ban on the use of Soviet symbols, condemnation of the communist regime of the USSR and the opening of the archives of Soviet special services available in the country. As part of the implementation of the law, cities, streets are renamed, monuments to Soviet leaders and leaders are dismantled.