Moscow libraries started displaying lists of banned authors. Starring: N.Gaiman, S.King, JK Rowling, J.Abercrombie, G.Orwell

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1. Russia is so 2021.
   We’ve moved on. No one cares about that country anymore.

2. Nothing stings like “1984”, huh?

3. What’s even more surprising is the fact that anyone would be surprised by this.

4. Honestly, I suspect all of those authors (Well, not Orwell, as he’s dead) would take this as a badge of honour.

5. Banning Orwell is a certified 451 Fahrenheit moment

6. months ago, Putin gave Rowling as an example of how the west treats authors unfairly because they cancel them, and now he’s doing exactly that… you can’t make this sh*t up

7. Now Reddit’s edgy children won’t know what to do with Rowling.

8. you’d expect Pasternak on this list

9. Ugh… Russia stands with Trans rights?

10. Of course thay ban Orwell

11. >G.Orwell

    Immagine writing an attack against dictatorships so good that they are still scared of your book after decades.

    >N.Gaiman, S.King, JK Rowling, J.Abercrombie,

    The fuck did they do to Russia? Shit, the only thing three of them have in comon is writing weird sex scenes.

    Actually no, the mere presence of sex is probably too much for An unofficial theocracy

12. The list according to my OCR

    Акунин Б.:Абгарян Н.:Алексеевич С.:Быков Д.:Веллер М.:Витухновская А.;Войнович В.;Вырыпаев И.;Глуховский Д.;Гришковец Е.;Зыгарь М.;Иванов А.;Иличевский А.;Латынина Ю.;Лимонов Э.;Невзоров А.;Оруэлл Дж.;Рубина Д.;Сорокин В.;Суворов В.;Улицкая Л.;Шендерович В.;Якима Г.Кииг С.;Аберкромби д.;іГейман Н.;Пшехшта А.;Баркли Л.;Роулинг Д.

    Translation according to google:

    Akunin B.:
    Abgaryan N.:
    Alekseevich S.:
    D. Bykov:
    Weller M.:
    Vitukhnovskaya A.;
    Voynovich V.;
    Vyrypaev I.;
    D. Glukhovsky;
    Grishkovets E.;
    Zygar M.;
    Ivanov A.;
    Ilichevskyi A.;
    Latynina Yu.;
    Limonov E.;
    Nevzorov A.;
    Orwell J.;
    Rubina D.;
    Sorokin V.;
    Suvorov V.;
    Ulitskaya L.;
    Shenderovich V.;
    Yakima G.
    Kiig S.;
    Abercrombie d
    Heyman N.;
    Pshehshta A.;
    Barkley L.;
    Rowling D.

13. banning books is always a stupid decision.

14. Literally 1984

15. Don’t show this to the Cristo-Fascists or they will use the list.

16. The irrony of banning George Orwell’s books

17. Orwell for example i get from the perspective of an authoritarian hellhole.

    And Stephen King had been pretty outspoken against russias war in Ukraine.

    But Rowling? I dont think the Kremlin dislikes her trans takes, to the contrary.

    Is it just because ” wizards” and the increasing big role of the orthodox church in justifying the war as a crusade agaibst satanism?

18. Next step is to assemble all existing books from those authors and burn them publicly. I’m still missing that one in my Russia goes full nazi bingo.

19. Glukhovsky, author of Metro books series is also on the list.

20. Sorokin. They’ve banned one of the greatest living Russian authors. Well, that’s nothing new I suppose- he was banned in the Soviet days too.

    Day of the Oprichnik is a great work. I read it in English. I got my wife, who is from Moscow, his latest novel, Doktor Garin, for Christmas. I can’t wait until my Russian is fluent enough to read it.

21. They even misspelt [Alexievich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Alexievich)’s last name (third from top): they wrote it as Alex**e**evich.

22. That’s just a cover. In fact, they just want to ban Orwell’s 1984.

23. A Russian reading list has been printed. Finally everything a Russian citizen absolutely should read organized into one neat list by Putin himself.

24. 1984 meet real 1984