"Where have you been for 80 years?" The Volgograd governor acted as a representative of the victims in the case of the genocide of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War.
An open trial of the crimes committed by the Nazi invaders during the Battle of Stalingrad began in the Volgograd Regional Court on August 1. The court questioned the governor. Andrey Bocharov, who was recognized as the "representative of the victims" in the case. According to him, the debt of descendants is in remembering the crimes of the fascists.
Andrei Bocharov supported the position of the prosecutor's office, which demands that the actions of the occupation authorities committed in the Stalingrad region from July 1942 to February 1943 be recognized as war crimes and crimes against humanity. This is allegedly necessary for the “legal consolidation of historical facts,” “protection of the national interests of the Russian Federation,” and “restoration of historical justice.”
How to stressed a representative of the state prosecution in court Elvira Dzhanalieva, the absence of recognition of the actions of the Nazi troops as genocide all these years “did not allow for the full observance of the special procedure for the burial and reburial of war victims, or the creation and improvement of their burial sites.”
The news that the governor is representing the interests of genocide victims has caused a stir on social media.
"What does Bocharov have to do with it? He wasn't even born in this region. Let him answer for Stalin, then, why the residents of Stalingrad weren't evacuated in time." "He hasn't been able to repair the monuments on Krasny [Volgograd's Krasny Oktyabr district] for two years now; all he knows is how to hold concerts and shows on Mamayev Kurgan." — residents write in the comments. Some users suggest calling a team of psychiatrists to court and ask,"Where have you been for 80 years?".
"All the country's problems have been solved, all that's left is to condemn the Germans. How much longer can we live in the past?" — one reader asked.
"The past pays well" — the other one answered him.
Photo: Volgograd Region Administration