Melville House Books

A Russian publisher who gained attention for publishing Adolf Hitler‘s Mein Kampf in Russia has been given a one-year sentence by a court in Moscow for “inciting ethnic hatred” for including a “number” of anti-Semitic articles in a magazine he publishes called Rusich. According to a brief MosNews report, Viktor Korchagin was brought to court because ” a complaint from a World War II veteran who said articles in Rusich defamed Jews and contained extremist ideas.” Korchagin, meanwhile, pleaded not guilty and complained that he had “tried to do everything for the Russian people, and fought against discrimination.”

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.