Moscow Investigates Sale of Nazi Toy Soldiers (1 Viewer)

[BLReed]

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/04/04/moscow-prosecutor-investigates-sale-nazi-figurines-at-famous-toy-store/?intcmp=latestnews

Published April 04, 2015
Associated Press

MOSCOW – The Moscow prosecutor's office has opened a criminal investigation into the sale of
figurine soldiers in Nazi regalia at the Russian capital's most renowned children's store.

A statement from the prosecutor's office on Saturday said investigators were considering possible
charges of inciting hatred and undermining the dignity of veterans of World War II.

The case comes just a month before planned extensive ceremonies throughout Russia marking the
70th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany. The Red Army's offensive against the Nazis is one
of the most revered actions in Russia.

News reports said the figurines were on sale at the Central Children's Store, a vast building in
central Moscow famous in Soviet times under the name Detsky Mir. It reopened this week after
seven years of reconstruction.

 

[damian]

I wonder what make of toy soldiers
Maybe the LAH range

 

[Artillery_crazy]

Gee...
This is going a bit over the top....why the Russian Prosecutor´s office does not go after the Russian Mafia that is draining the country white sending money via truck loads to Western Europe and buying all the luxorious flats in London and beach houses in the Mediterranean they can lay their hands on.......{sm2}{sm0}^&confuse

 

[mikemiller1955]

Gee...
This is going a bit over the top....why the Russian Prosecutor´s office does not go after the Russian Mafia that is draining the country white sending money via truck loads to Western Europe and buying all the luxorious flats in London and beach houses in the Mediterranean they can lay their hands on.......{sm2}{sm0}^&confuse

or investigate Putin himself...

 

[theBaron]

Thank God for our Constitution!

Prost!
Brad

 

[4th Hussar]

Time to round up the usual suspects, call out the firing squad, resolve the problem and follow up with an after the fact trial:salute::

 

[jazzeum]

It's easy to criticize the Russians on this but none of us suffered like the Russians did at the hands of the Nazis. Just as the Germans had a horror of the "Russian hordes" invading Germany (in both WW I and II) so did the Russians of the Germans. Moreover, the war has only been over 70 years, not a long time in human memory.

 

[Mirof]

In some European country, like Begium, the Nazi Svatiska symbol is prohibited by law on all "toys"

 

[hotel3alpha]

YEAH...what Mike said...

John from Texas

 

[maddadicus]

It's easy to criticize the Russians on this but none of us suffered like the Russians did at the hands of the Nazis. Just as the Germans had a horror of the "Russian hordes" invading Germany (in both WW I and II) so did the Russians of the Germans. Moreover, the war has only been over 70 years, not a long time in human memory.

My history might be a little fuzzy, but the Russians did ally themselves with those Nazis with the intent to be co rulers of Europe. Ask the Finns or the White Russians who were the real bad guys in WW2? The Russians were just beaten to the punch by the Nazis betraying them first. Michael

 

[jazzeum]

What you say is true but I think you're missing the point as to why the Russians might be upset about these sales. There has been a long standing fear by the Russians of the Germans for as long as one can remember just as there has been a fear by the German people, including Austria, of the Slavic peoples; this is one of the underlying reasons for WW I. When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, it was with a goal to exterminate and to subjugate. In the Eastern Front, it was no quarter asked, no quarter given between these two old rivals. This is why they may be upset -- and I emphasize may -- by these sales.

 

[BLReed]

........... This is why they may be upset -- and I emphasize may -- by these sales.

If they are so upset by the selling of toy Nazi soldiers they wouldn't be on the self for sale in the
first place. Merchants normally don't stock items that people won't buy.

 

[Desertkiwi]

I can completely understand folks being a little sensitive about Nazi figures, but at the end of the day these are Toy Soldiers and besides the Russians did some horrendous things to their own people before, during and after WW2. The whole thing smacks of hypocrisy to me.

 

[Jack]

I hate conspiracy theories but on this one I will make an exception. Someone has opened a store and not paid the appropriate people their 'consulting' fees.

 

[Mirof]

Perhaps this is one of the multiple why

https://youtu.be/_eoKJ-Zr6Rc

https://youtu.be/5vbaVgT6QDM

 

[theBaron]

I hate conspiracy theories but on this one I will make an exception. Someone has opened a store and not paid the appropriate people their 'consulting' fees.

I wouldn't call that a conspiracy theory, I'd call that a well-founded hypothesis.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Phantom Warrior]

It all comes down to who killed the most Russians - Hitler, Stalin or Yeltsin (still in progress) ^&grin

Terry