The prosecutor's office considered the New Year's toys featuring Larisa Geniyush, which were sold at the "Kalyadnaya Krama" store, to be a rehabilitation of Nazism.

"The Prosecutor's Office of the Soviet District of Minsk, during monitoring on the Internet, discovered offers for the purchase of products related to the rehabilitation of Nazism in one of the capital's stores and demanded that it be excluded from sale. It was established that goods in the form of New Year's toys with the image of Larisa Geniush are publicly displayed and offered for purchase in one of the stores," the Minsk Prosecutor's Office said in a statement.

It is noted that Larisa Geniush was convicted by a verdict of the Supreme Court of the BSSR on February 7, 1949 under Articles 66, 76 of the Criminal Code of the BSSR (as amended in 1928) for "treason" and "participation in an anti-Soviet organization."

"During the Second World War, she was in Czechoslovakia and participated in writing an appeal from the "Belarusians of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" to Adolf Hitler. Her activities were closely related to Nazi propaganda in the captured Belarusian lands. The issue of Larisa Geniush's rehabilitation has been raised repeatedly, but the Supreme Court has established that there are no grounds for her rehabilitation," the prosecutor's office said.

New Year's toys are the organization's own products - the owner of the store.

The Deputy Prosecutor of the Soviet District of Minsk sent a directive to the director of the organization to eliminate violations of the legislation on "preventing the rehabilitation of Nazism," in which he demanded to eliminate the "violations" and exclude the goods from sale. The progress of the audit is under the control of the district prosecutor's office.

Recently, "Kalyadnaya Krama", located on Koltsova Street in Minsk, began selling a series of Christmas balls with portraits of Belarusian writers and educators. Among them were Vasily Bykov, Francisc Skaryna, Yanka Kupala, Maxim Bogdanovich, Vladimir Korotkevich and others. There was also Larisa Geniush.

It was Larisa Geniush's personality that the propagandists latched on to.

According to a letter from the administration of the Soviet District of Minsk, published by the applicant Olga Bondareva, the police are currently conducting an investigation into the "Kalyadnaya Krama".

The letter, signed by the head of the administration, Alexander Schekovich, stated that the Minsk City Executive Committee had received electronic appeals claiming that employees of the "Christmas Store" were distributing "materials that rehabilitate Nazism" by selling toys with a portrait of Geniush.

As a result, the store was closed.

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