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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1391678)	2/17/2023 8:25:45 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571220

BTW, your "book burning" was done in 2010 by Ukrainians who were pro-Russian, not Russian soldiers. Dude, you take anything that appeals to your prejudices at face value. That's why you get Grubered daily. +++ verifythis.com Viral photo of book burning not taken during Ukraine/Russia war ... May 27, 2022"Representatives of one of the political forces brought books on a cart, doused them with kerosene and set them on fire," the KP Ukraine news report (written in Russian and translated via Google Translate) said. Using Yandex, VERIFY could also trace the photos to a blog post published by UNIAN, a Ukrainian news agency, in March 2010. But today Ukes are fascists and you support them. reuters.com where do you suppose those 19,000,000 books went? ...and: Ukrainian government plans book banning on massive scale David Walsh 14 June 2022 In an interview with the Kyiv-based Interfax news agency in late May, Oleksandra Koval, director of the Ukrainian Book Institute (UBI), estimated that more than 100 million copies of “propaganda books,” including Russian classics, needed to be removed from Ukrainian public libraries. The UBI, according to its own website, “is a government entity, part of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine.” The institute’s mission is to shape government policy “in the area of book publishing, promote book reading in Ukraine, support book industry, provide incentives for translations and popularize Ukrainian literature abroad.” Koval, in the course of her interview, explained that she hoped the first phase of the purge, removing “the ideologically harmful literature published in the Soviet times … of which there is so much, as well as the Russian literature with anti-Ukrainian content,” would be completed by the end of the year. She indicated that, first and foremost, books “that reinforce imperial narratives and promote violence, pro-Russian and chauvinistic policies” would be withdrawn from public libraries. What books those would be she failed to mention. In the second stage, books by Russian authors published after 1991 would be “confiscated.” These would be of “different genres, too, including children's books, and romance novels, and detective stories.” So no one would mistake the profoundly reactionary character of the project, Koval went out of her way to include classics of Russian literature among the books slated to be banned. Writers and poets such as Alexander Pushkin and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, she claimed, had laid the foundation for the “Russian-speaking world” and “Russian messianism.” “It’s really very harmful literature,” Koval went on, according to Interfax, which can “influence people’s views. Therefore, my personal opinion is that these books should also be removed from public and school libraries.” They should probably stay in university and research libraries “to be read by academics studying the roots of evil and totalitarianism,” she added. Koval indicated that scientific libraries might hold on to “specialized scientific literature the authors of which may have anti-Ukrainian views” for the moment, “but only if the scientific book in question has no ideological connotations,” reported the news agency. “There is no reason to withdraw it first until some replacement is created by Ukrainian or foreign authors,” she asserted.