[R-G] Fwd: Russian libraries throw out communist 'propaganda'

[Tom Childs]

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Ananova:

Russian libraries throw out communist 'propaganda'
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_833456.html?menu=news.quirkies 
Almost three quarters-of-a-million books on communism are being thrown
out of libraries in Russia.

Twenty libraries in the Russian Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad have sent
700,000 books on communist ideology to recycling plants.

Elena Alesandronets, head of the Kaliningrad Library System, told the
Rosbalt news agency only a few of the books, which she described as
largely "Marxist and Leninist propaganda", in their stocks would be
kept.

She said: "No one's had any interest in them since the Soviet Union
collapsed.
They were just gathering dust and we needed space for more modern
literature."

Story filed: 11:20 Wednesday 29th October 2003




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