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The Investigative Committee for Kursk region has opened a criminal case for ‘rehabilitation of Nazism’ against a 17-year-old school student who sent a photo of a porn actor to be displayed on a veterans’ wall in the centre of Zheleznogorsk, a city near the border with Ukraine. This was reported by the regional Investigative Committee’s press office.
The teenager is being accused under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism—specifically, for humiliating the honour and dignity of veterans of the Great Patriotic War online (part 4, article 354.1 of the Criminal Code).
According to investigators, between March and May 2025, the minor sent via phone a photograph considered to humiliate the honour and dignity of veterans, which was then placed on a stand at the memorial for the 80th anniversary of victory in the Second World War. People could submit photos of their veteran relatives using a messenger, and they could appear on a display called “Kursk Battle.”
It turned out the teenager had sent a photo of porn actor Billy Herrington, known as the hero of the “gachimuchi” meme series (images of muscular porn actors that have become internet memes). The publication “7×7” notes that the school student sent Herrington’s photo seven times.
“After that, the perpetrator, while near the memorial wall, saw the previously submitted photo among other images of veterans of the Great Patriotic War and participants in the special military operation, photographed it together with photos of other veterans and special military operation participants, saved the picture on their phone, and then posted it in a channel they created on a messenger platform, where it was available for others to view and discuss,” the Investigative Committee writes.
Former city council deputy from the Communist Party, Ruslan Tsyganov, was the first to notice the photo. He posted a video about this back on 2 May. Herrington’s picture was covered over with real veterans’ photos before 9 May. Law enforcement identified the teenager by mid-May.