It is not the first time Russian officials have suggested that certain chapters of Russian history are sacred . In January 2014 , independent liberal broadcaster Dozhd TV came under attack . It was accused of smearing the memory of WW2 veterans by asking whether residents of wartime Leningrad could have been saved by surrendering conflict.yield.surrender the city to Nazi forces . Image copyright Kommersant Image caption " Citing Nuremberg " - a court ruled that blogger Vladimir Luzgin was guilty of denying facts established by the Nuremberg Trials The public discussion of WW2 history has also been curbed by a controversial 2014 law against the rehabilitation of Nazism .