[Petrosius]

The ban was on the importation of books from Russia and Belarus, not the production of books in the Russian language within Ukraine.

[Jonty30]

Right. I’m sure that Ukranian publishers, under a hostile Ukranian government, will produce all the Russian books everybody wants.

You really don’t understand how things work. Russian books and culture will not be domestically produced. A ban on importation is a ban on the culture itself.

[Jonty30]

Right. I’m sure that Ukranian publishers, under a hostile Ukranian government, will produce all the Russian books everybody wants.

You really don’t understand how things work. Russian books and culture will not be domestically produced. A ban on importation is a ban on the culture itself.

A ban on the culture is a defacto ban on the people.