Article using Luftwaffe wartime reconnaisance imagery of battle of Kursk drives media attention

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Originally Posted by Dan History

Inadmissible because it is a gross violation of the basic principle of free speech. Furthermore, this manufactured scandal is based on a gross misrepresentation of a single line in Kellerhof's article. What he actually wrote was 'Eigentlich müsste dieses Denkmal sofort abgerissen werden.' Translated into English, this would read, 'As a matter of fact, this monument would have to be demolished immediately.' This does not in any sense constitute a call to action or 'barbaric words'. Kellerhof simply drew attention to the hypocritical nature of this specific monument, something that he was perfectly entitled to do.

Does this mean that the Russians are now not entitled to have a monument commemorating a major battle of the Second World War erected on their own land?

There is nothing hypocritical about thousands of soldiers who laid their lives in defence of their homeland. The monument acknowledges that fact.

The so-called basic principle of free speech went too far this time. No country in the world would tolerate such article, and I do not see why should Russia.