Russian libraries throw out communist ‘propaganda’

Charles Davis writes “Report from
Ananova about
Almost three quarters-of-a-million books on communism 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”