Russia’s National Library Has a ‘Closed Repository of Destructive literature.’ It Includes Stephen Hawking and a Churchill Biography — and Is Decorated with Ukrainian Dog Tags and a Putin Quote.
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Russia’s national library has a ‘closed repository of destructive literature.’ It includes Stephen Hawking and a Churchill biography — and is decorated with Ukrainian dog tags and a Putin quote.
The Russian State Library (RSL, also known as the Lenin Library) has for several months been running a “closed repository for destructive literature.” Only intelligence service employees and scholars can get in. Scholars, however, have to pass a separate interview with the RSL to gain access. Kommersant toured the storage facility. Here’s what stood out.
Since the outbreak of the full-scale war, the Special Guard of the "destructive literature" of the Russian State Library (RRT, Leninka) has kept publicly available children's and historical literature, discovered "Commersant." Journalists have been able to take a tour of the CBWG's closed vault with director Leninki Vadim Duda. Five sections are dedicated to a specific topic or phenomenon: "ideology of the ruling Ukrainian elite", Ukrainian nati…
Photo by Dmitry Lebedev / Commersant. Reporters of Kommersanta managed to reach the closed vault of the Russian State Library (Leninki), where the so-called "destructive literature" is collected. The special media site tour was organized by the leadership of WGB. Among other things, Lucy and Stephen Hawkingov were found in the vault and Martin Gilbert's biography of Winston Churchill in Ukrainian translation. It also contains the memoirs of Ukra…
The closed repository of the “destructive literature” of the Russian State Library (Leninka) contains a three-volume book by Lucy and Stephen Hawking about the adventures of boy George and a biography by Martin Gilbert of Winston Churchill. They were found by a “Commerce” correspondent who visited the special guard. Dozhd TV: news, video, broadcast, online, archive, program program.
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