‘A Book is a Quiet Weapon’

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At a recycling facility outside Kyiv, the face of Vladimir Lenin gazed from the cover of a discarded biography among Russian copies of Dostoevsky, Nabokov, and Pushkin about to be funneled into a shredder. The books, eventually to become egg cartons and toilet paper, came from both private citizens and public libraries across Ukraine. Last […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/04/21/derussification-ukraine-libraries/

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