Responsibility for the genocide of the Soviet people by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War: problems of legal assessment

In order to actualize the problem of legal assessment of the criminal activities of the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War, this article describes the criminological aspects of the spread of criminal fascist ideology in various manifestations in Western countries, which in 1941-1945 caused the punitive practice of the Nazi regime on the territory of the Soviet Union. Under these conditions, the facts of distortion and falsification of history, the glorification of Nazi criminals, their accomplices and collaborators who collaborated with them are a significant threat to harm the national interests of the Russian Federation. Based on the norms of international and national legislation, archival sources, the results of law enforcement activities of the Prosecutor’s Office, the Investigative Committee, courts and other state bodies, as well as taking into account the intent, purpose of committing crimes against humanity, the authors attempted to show the features and the need to qualify the atrocities of the Nazi invaders and their accomplices as genocide of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War. The Patriotic War. In particular, it was concluded that in order to establish historical and social justice, it is necessary to intensify work on identifying and investigating the facts of the criminal activities of the Nazis, as well as legislative registration and international recognition of the genocide of the peoples of the Soviet Union by Germany and its accomplices during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.