Employees of Sheremetevsky customs have intercepted a shipment award and five other items with Nazi symbols, which tried to send from Russia to New Zealand in the box of the drugs. On Friday 28 July, reports kp.ru.
“The cross of the II degree, 1939, the red ribbon on the pin with Nazi symbols, the coin, the guillotine for cigars, buttons, matchbooks,” he listed the publication is withdrawn, the employee a press-services of customs Anna Yevtushenko.
According to the preliminary opinion of the representative of the Ministry of culture, all of these items of cultural value. “Based on the condition and appearance of objects, we can assume that they can be trophies black diggers” — said Yevtushenko.
The contents of the intercepted parcels sent for examination. If the preliminary assessment is confirmed, the sender will be prosecuted for smuggling cultural valuables (article 226.1 of the criminal code).
Iron Cross II degree, 1939 is considered the most massive military award in Nazi Germany.