A case of rehabilitation of Nazism was initiated against a 17-year-old teenager from Zheleznogorsk, reported the Investigative Committee of the Kursk region.
He is accused of sending a photo of gay porn actor William Herrington, known from gachi-muchi memes, in Soviet uniform for the 11-meter banner 'Kursk Battle' with veterans.
Photos for the 'Faces of Victory' campaign could be sent via email and phone number in the messenger. Apparently, no one checked if the veteran in the photo was real.
The author and executor of the panel idea, Zheleznogorsk entrepreneur Anton Polsky, told 'Kursk News' that Herrington's photo came to his work phone. The panel was installed at the administration building before May 9.
The teenager photographed the memorial and spread the photo on social networks.
After seven portraits of Herrington were noticed on the banner, they were replaced with other photos. Polsky said he was 'ready to apologize, but he doesn't know American porn actors.' According to him, he believed in the originality of the photo sent from the schoolboy's number (he was 16 at the time) because it was aged.
The city head Alexander Mikhailov then suggested 'working with the student in terms of patriotic education,' while the Investigative Committee decided to start with criminal prosecution.