The ECtHR fifteen January will answer grandson of Stalin on the complaint for defamation of the grandfather
The European court of human rights fifteen January to make a decision on the complaint, the grandson of Joseph Stalin Yevgeny Dzhugashvili on libel on his grandfather, said Last news in court.
"Applicant Yevgeny Dzhugashvili in his complaint raises the question of the violation of his right to respect for private and family life (article 8 of the European Convention on human rights)," he explained in court.
It comes with 2 claims Dzhugashvili on the protection of honor and dignity to the "Novaya Gazeta" that the Russian courts have rejected in 2009. In the publications examined the question of the death penalty in 1940 in Katyn Polish prisoners of war and about the role of the Soviet Directors in these events. Dzhugashvili found that these articles had been slandered by his grandfather, which had sought to have the court ordered the media to refute common in publishing the statement, as well as compensation of 10 million rubles.
Grandson of Stalin later went to court with a claim to the radio station "Echo of Moscow" on a similar occasion, which was also the court rejected.
The Soviet government for several decades denied his attachment to the elimination thousand Polish prisoners of war and bureaucrats on the square of the USSR, as well as among them in Smolensk and Kalinin (Tver), as well as in Ukraine and Belarus.
in 1944 the Soviet Commission headed by academician Burdenko accused in the massacre of poles by the German occupiers, but in the spring of 1990 TASS spread the message about what the "Katyn Case" represents " one of the serious crimes of Stalinism ". According to declassified note the head of the KGB Shelepin, in the framework of the special operations of the NKVD, which was based on the Decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) on March 5, 1940, was shot about 22 thousand deportees from Poland military and bureaucrats.
in 2010, the government published an electronic copy of the documents executed the poles, passing in Poland and the materials of the criminal case on the death.
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