They're covering up the fact that Santa is real and a Dinosaur.
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-drunk_russian-6 days ago
+15
Wait until they read "Paddington flies a drone at a Russian refinery". It's not one of the most popular titles, but you know, Streisand effect.
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noir_lord6 days ago
+6
Naughty list has more impact when St Nick is a Utahraptor.
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TheTelegraph6 days ago
+25
***The Telegraph reports:***
Russia has seized a shipment of “extremist” British children’s literature including a book called The Dinosaurs Who Met Santa Claus.
The St Petersburg branch of the federal customs service said it had been forced to confiscate a 12.7-ton package of imported children’s books in English and German because it contained “extremist content”.
Images and video footage released by the service show a uniformed official inspecting colourful titles such as See Inside A Museum, My First Story Writing Book, and The Dinosaurs Who Met Santa Claus, a short story about baby dinosaurs visiting Father Christmas, who is also a dinosaur.
The boxes also contained copies of Eggs and Chicks, a book about bird parenting, and Baby’s Very First Big Play Book, an interactive book containing textured patches, hidden flaps and a sound panel to engage children aged two to four.
“Expert assessment confirmed that the seized products contain prohibited information,” the statement read, without specifying the nature of the banned material.
It added that the shipment, which also held dictionaries, cards and posters, was valued at £140,000 with 28 books containing “extremist” subject matter.
**Full story:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/07/russia-seizes-shipment-of-british-childrens-books/?WT.mc\_id=tmgoff\_listnook\_shipment-of-british-childrens-books/&accesscontrol=facebookchannel\_open**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/07/russia-seizes-shipment-of-british-childrens-books/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_listnook_shipment-of-british-childrens-books/&accesscontrol=facebookchannel_open)
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animatedpileofmeat6 days ago
+30
Now that the Internet is gone they gotta go after the books lol
I’d call Russia backwards, but that’s insulating to the word backwards.
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Psyko6 days ago
+7
Is "regressive" also too kind?
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ENROLpaints6 days ago
-11
Isn’t America doing the same thing ?
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Psyko6 days ago
+4
Interesting point, but the worst elements don't have full control yet
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animatedpileofmeat6 days ago
+11
Nope, I definitely still have the Internet.
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Swany6 days ago
+7
He means banning books.
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CCruzah6 days ago
+17
They never read them anyway.
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gazpitchy6 days ago
-5
Yeah, but this is Listnook.
Therefore Russia is the worst and some all evil bogeyman.
The USA since 2021 have banned thousands of books, way over any other country. It's by far the biggest censor of printed medium currently.
"According to a survey by [PEN America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEN_International), about 10,000 books were banned from US schools under Republican-led censorship laws in the 2023/2024 academic year, nearly tripling the number for the previous academic year."
But also, it gets worse still...
"The [Texas Legislature](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/87th_Texas_Legislature) passed [House Bill 3979](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_House_Bill_3979) in July 2021. Known as Texas's "[critical race theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory) law", after an academic field which became a common objection for conservatives, it restricts the manner and extent to which students may learn about or discuss race, racism, sex, or sexism, or the role of those concepts in American culture and history.[^(\[77\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_banning_in_the_United_States_(2021%E2%80%93present)#cite_note-Lopez-2021-77) The law, and confusion over how to enforce it, led to many book challenges."
If Russia is wrong for banning these books, the USA is literally just as guilty. But you don't see the same criticism, it's a double standard.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book\_banning\_in\_the\_United\_States\_(2021%E2%80%93present)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_banning_in_the_United_States_(2021%E2%80%93present))
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Aakhkharu5 days ago
+3
"Usa does it and it's bad, therefore if ruzzia does it it's not that bad"... i guess they do not condemn murderers and rapists because "other people do it as well" where you're from..
You are aware that one is allowed to understand that there can be more than one bad actors on the planet, right...?
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annakarenina666 days ago
+6
there's lots of very anti USA sub listnooks, you've just gotta find your people
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ShivasRightFoot6 days ago
+2
> "The Texas Legislature passed House Bill 3979 in July 2021. Known as Texas's "critical race theory law", after an academic field which became a common objection for conservatives, it restricts the manner and extent to which students may learn about or discuss race, racism, sex, or sexism, or the role of those concepts in American culture and history.
In some cases the "anti-CRT" legislation Republicans were passing had explicit and extensive protections for the teaching of the history of racism. Here the Texas SB3 "anti-CRT" legislation passed by the Texas legislature in 2021 is one such case. This is what the bill prohibits, note that the history of American slavery is not listed here:
>4) a teacher, administrator, or other employee of a state agency, school district, or open-enrollment charter school may not:
...
>(A) require or make part of a course the following concepts:
>(i) one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex;
>(ii) an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously;
>(iii) an individual should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment solely or partly because of his or her race or sex;
>(iv) members of one race or sex cannot and should not attempt to treat others without respect to race or sex;
These prohibitions do not prevent teaching history. The bill also had an extensive list of protections for the teaching of the history of White Supremacy in the United States, and specifically calls it morally wrong:
>SECTION 9. During the revision of the essential knowledge and skills for the social studies curriculum beginning in 2021 and scheduled to conclude in or around 2023, the State Board of Education may not use the removal by this Act of documents, speeches, historical figures, and other knowledge and skills from specific statutory reference in Section 28.002(h-2), Education Code, as added by H.B. 3979, Acts of the 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, as a reason for the removal or noninclusion of those documents, speeches, historical figures, or other knowledge and skills from the essential knowledge and skills for the social studies curriculum, including any essential knowledge and skills that require an understanding of:
...
>(11) the history of white supremacy, including but not limited to the institution of slavery, the eugenics movement, and the Ku Klux Klan, and the ways in which it is morally wrong;
>(12) the history and importance of the civil rights movement, including the following documents:
...
>(D) the Emancipation Proclamation;
>(E) the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
>(F) the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution;
>(G) the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision in Mendez v. Westminster;
>(H) Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave;
Clause (11) here specifically protects teaching the history of the former American practice of chattel slavery and that it was morally wrong.
https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB3/id/2431439
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JarJarBingChilling6 days ago
+5
Why don’t they instead seize their [pro-hitlerian](https://cepa.org/article/comrade-hitler-and-other-russian-fantasies/) wet dream manifesto books that are popular in that wasteland? The two quoted books don’t even begin to scratch the surface how pervasive this is.
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