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To: Cronos

Banning their religion, books, and music, and letting neo-Nazis attack them sounds like ethnic cleansing to me. Zelensky is a pig.


23 posted on 03/22/2023 6:05:36 AM PDT by Venkman
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To: Venkman

Sigh...

Books — books in Russian have not been banned. Only books published from Russia. According to the law, one person can import at most 10 Russian books without a permit. Unauthorized distribution of books from Russia is also banned
In light of Russia’s continuing 2022 invasion on Ukraine, on 19 June 2022, the Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) adopted a follow-up law. It bans any imports of all book and publishing production from the Russian Federation and Belarus, alongside the Ukrainian territories under Russian occupation.
n addition, all imported Russian-language publications from third countries (that is, mainly other post-Soviet states) must be first screened for any anti-Ukrainian content before allowed for distribution and sale in Ukraine

This is no different than the US or UK stopping Nazi and Imperial Japanese propaganda publications from entering during WWII.

Music - this is iffy, but understandable for a country that is under attack from Moscow — The document says the ban will “minimise the risks of possible hostile propaganda through music in Ukraine and will increase the volume of national music products in the cultural space,” BBC Monitoring reports.

The ban will apply to musicians who have or had Russian citizenship at any time after 1991 - the year Ukraine declared independence - except for those who are Ukrainian citizens or were so at the time of their death.

This means the works of long-dead Russian composers such as Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich can still be performed.

Letting neo-Nazis attack? Well the Ukrainian forces are trying to prevent the Wagner Nazis from destroying too much of Ukraine.

Next - the banning of the Moscow Patriarchate affiliated Russian Orthodox Churchs is due to Patriarch Kirill’s support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The Kyiv Patriarchate of the Orthodox Church is busy ministering to the Orthodox faithful


24 posted on 03/22/2023 6:26:40 AM PDT by Cronos
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