The ECtHR rejected the claim grandson of Stalin's Russia
The European Commission of human rights (ECtHR) by unanimous decision, dismissed the appeal grandson of Stalin Yevgeny Dzhugashvili to Russia published in "Novaya Gazeta" about the shooting of Polish prisoners of war in Katyn in 1940.
in the message of the Strasbourg court noted that the decision was taken unanimously and is final, RIA " Novosti ". Case was published in "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper articles about the murder of Polish POWs in Katyn in 1940, and about the role, which, As stated, the former Soviet leader played in these tragic events. The applicant is the grandson of Joseph Stalin Yevgeny Dzhugashvili was filed against the newspaper lawsuit on protection of honor and dignity, which was rejected. In its decision the Court, for example, ruled that published in "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper articles talked about the events of major historical significance and that the events themselves, and involved them in historical figures, such As the grandfather of the applicant, steadily remain subject to public scrutiny and criticism."" The European Court also felt that the Russian courts, based on its precedents, carefully weighed conflicting desires, on the one hand, freedom of journalistic activities, and, on the reverse side, with the applicant's right to protection of private life with regard to himself and his grandfather, " said the document. Remember also, in April 2012, Nikulinsky Court of Moscow rejected the claim Dzhugashvili to the head of the Department of registration and archives of the FSB Basil Christoforou with the requirement to refute the words of belonging "great leader" to the execution of Polish officers in Katyn. As reported in the print edition GLANCE, February 14, Tver Court of Moscow rejected the same claim Yevgeny Dzhugashvili to the state Duma. Then Authorized the Respondent told the court that the lawsuit is really my claim is not about the protection of honor and dignity, and about the challenge of a document of a public authority, which is unacceptable. In addition, authorized the Respondent considered unproven fact of the relationship of the plaintiff with Stalin. First Dzhugashvili have already appealed to the Court against the state Duma, but he was avenged, deputies recovered to him 100 million rubles of damage. The court considered these claims to be unfounded and dismissed the suit. In addition, Dzhugashvili was appealed to the Supreme Court, which returned the claim for appeal to the district Court, because he saw in it not only a dispute about facts, but about the law. The Soviet government for several decades denied belong to the so-called "Katyn case" mass liquidation thousand Polish prisoners of war and bureaucrats on the square of the USSR, as well as among them in Smolensk and Kalinin oblasts 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." The Katyn issue " for many years was complicated Russian-Polish relations, and in 2010 the Russian authorities had published an electronic copy of the documents executed the poles, passing in Poland and the materials of the criminal case on the death. The state Duma on 26 November 2010 received a message stating that the Polish officers at Katyn was shot on the direct orders of Stalin and other Soviet Directors. The state Duma said that in Soviet propaganda " responsible for this atrocity... was Attributed to Nazi criminals, which invariably gave rise to anger, resentment and distrust of the Polish people ". For the adoption of the resolution voted by members of the faction " United Russia, Fair Russia and LDPR. The Communist party voted against.
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