Ulyanovsk social activists against the propaganda of Hitlerism

In early August 2007, the Ulyanovsk public organization "Parents' meeting" appealed to the regional prosecutor's office with a demand to stop the sale of literature promoting Nazism in the shops of the city.

The reason for the appeal was the purchase of several books in one of the large bookstores of the city "Knigomir", which, according to the applicants, are open propaganda of neo-Nazism. As the head of the organization, Konstantin Dolinin, stated, "such a number of books about Hitler is brand promotion, as PR people will say today . "

Activists of the organization are waiting for an examination of such literature, to withdraw them from sale, or to introduce an age limit that limits access to their acquisition.

At the same time, they note that after they held a press conference on this issue, books on Nazism suddenly disappeared from the shelves of the store.

However, the director of the Knigomir chain of stores, Anastasia Bogdanova, said in a telephone conversation that it is the right of the applicants to submit the books to the prosecutor's office for examination, but they are not included in the list of extremist literature recently published by Rosregistration . Therefore, there is no reason to restrict their sale. If applicants want to ban the sale of such literature, they must obtain a court order.

In July 2008, it turned out that among the books that outraged the "Parents' Meeting" was the monograph by the English historian Hugh Trevor-Roper "Hitler's Table Talk. 1941-1944", which on July 8, 2008 the Ulyanovsk court recognized as extremist material .

Based on Internet blogs

Sources

• Ulyanovsk public organization "Parents' meeting" demands to withdraw from the sale of books about Hitler // Radio Liberty. 2007. 6 August.