A Russian emigrant doctor who published a World War II-era caricature has been sentenced to a heavy fine in Germany.
The cartoon, first published in 1945 in the Soviet satirical magazine Peretz, depicts two boots – one with the Ukrainian trident and the other with the German Nazi swastika on the shins – and an inscription in Ukrainian:
“Two choboty are a pair”.
According to the German court’s verdict, the defendant is “guilty of using signs that are unconstitutional and belong to terrorist organisations”.
“This act is unlawful if the said signs are not accompanied by an explanatory comment or are not crossed out,” the court document said.
The former Russian man was sentenced to a fine of €10,200 in favour of the state. It is known that the man moved to Germany ten years ago and now works as a neurosurgeon in a hospital in the south of the country. According to the German media, the landlord, a German citizen, ratted on the migrant.
EADaily specifies that the author of the cartoon “Two Boots are a Pair” is the famous Soviet poster artist, Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR Aleksandr Kozyurenko. He was a participant of World War II, worked as a front-line press artist, and from 1943 to 1959 was the chief artist of satirical humour magazine Peretz.
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