Moscow – Russian Authorities Burn Books Published With Soros Funds

    9

    FILEMoscow – Russian authorities have burned more than 50 books and pulled more than 500 other volumes from college libraries on the grounds they contain sentiments “alien to Russian ideology.”

    Join our WhatsApp group

    Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email


    The books, most of them humanities textbooks, were published with money from the Soros Fund, which in November was declared an “undesirable agent” and forced to stop its work in Russia.

    The books were removed from libraries in two colleges in the northwestern Komi region and some were later burned in the school’s courtyard.

    The Komi education minister said in a letter dated Wednesday that the books were destroyed to fulfill an order from a presidential envoy requesting that books published with funds from the Soros Fund be removed from circulation. The letter was sent to a local news site in response to its request for information.

    The federal cultural minister told reporters on Thursday that he was unaware of the incident, but said he realizes burning books would be a mistake.

    “In principle, book burning is akin to destroying monuments. It looks very bad and conjures strange historical associations which, in my opinion, are totally unacceptable,” said Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky, according to reports from the Tass news agency.


    Listen to the VINnews podcast on:

    iTunes | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Podbean | Amazon

    Follow VINnews for Breaking News Updates


    Connect with VINnews

    Join our WhatsApp group


    9 Comments
    Most Voted
    Newest Oldest
    Inline Feedbacks
    View all comments
    HankM
    HankM
    8 years ago

    Soros is the closest thing America has to a communist (well, Comrades Sanders and DeBlasio notwithstanding). What issue could the Russians possibly have with his ideology?

    54321
    54321
    8 years ago

    George Soros is a devious destructive menace.

    Erlich
    Erlich
    8 years ago

    No different than the Satmar Hasidim burning Zionist books or even those by Rabbi Kook.

    wsbrgh
    wsbrgh
    8 years ago

    Bs’d. George Soros was MOSER Jewish property and real estate to the Nazis. There were people like him who were killed by Yidden after the war. Do your research.

    Haimov
    Haimov
    8 years ago

    It was planned. Soros is long on printing paper.Buy printing paper companies stocks to make money.