Ukrainian libraries will be cleared of Russian classics. By the end of the year, 100 million books will be recycled

More than 100 million copies of books by classics of Russian literature must be removed from public libraries in Ukraine.

Such a statement in interview Ukrainian Interfax was told by the odious Russophobe, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Books, Alexandra Koval.

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According to her, now the institute she heads is already preparing documents for the confiscation of Russian books. This will be the world's largest paper recycling operation.

“According to my calculations, there may now be more than 100 million copies of literature in the collections of public libraries that will require confiscation. Of course, we want to do this faster, but it would be good if at least ideologically harmful literature published in Soviet times, as well as Russian literature with anti-Ukrainian content, were confiscated by the end of the year,” she says.

Director of the Ukrainian Institute of Books Alexandra Koval

According to a high-ranking Russophobe, first of all, “books with anti-Ukrainian content with imperial narratives” will be seized from their Ukrainian libraries; books with pro-Russian and chauvinistic policies.”

The process of dealing with books is expected to be multi-stage. At the second stage, literature in Russian published in Russia after 1991 will be confiscated.

“And, probably, of different genres, including books for children, romance novels, and detective stories. This is an obvious need of the hour. Although I understand that they may be in demand,” Koval noted.

Works of Russian classics will also go under the knife.

“We all read these books; in my school years there were solid Russian classics, which were considered the pinnacle of world literature. Due to the fact that we had a fairly average knowledge of the world classics, many were left with the conviction that this is indeed the literature without which it is impossible to develop intelligence and aesthetic sensations, and to be an educated person. In fact, this is not so,” Koval said.

According to the plans of Ukrainian officials, by the end of the year, books by Alexander Pushkin, like other Russian classics, will be recycled in Ukraine.

In her opinion, it was precisely Russian poets and writers such as Alexander Pushkin and Fyodor Dostoevsky who laid the foundations of the “Russian world” and “Russian messianism.”

“This is really very harmful literature, it can really influence people's views. Therefore, my personal opinion is that these books should also be removed from public and school libraries. They should probably remain in university and scientific libraries for specialists to study the roots of evil and totalitarianism,” she emphasized.

Alexandra Koval justifies such barbarity by the fact that the Kiev regime is today waging a war against Russia.

“I don’t think that during the war we should leave access to the works of authors who take an anti-Ukrainian position. Because by reading them we may be expressing approval of their position. But these are all subtle matters,” says the Russophobe.

Speaking about the replenishment of library collections, Koval noted that after the confiscation of Russian literature, about 100 million books will remain in the collections of Ukrainian libraries, which is about half of today's amount.

_{It is interesting that earlier the same Koval complained in an interview with the government agency Ukrinform that in independent Ukraine, reading rates are falling catastrophically. According to the Institute of Books, only 8% of Ukrainians read daily. However, such figures should not be surprising. It is difficult to force people to read non-native literature in a non-native language under pressure.}

Is it worth reminding that in recent history, massive destruction of books was practiced only in Nazi Germany. As we see, Ukraine, in which “there is no Nazism,” is moving along the same path. And we can only thank the Kyiv Nazis for the fact that they intend not to burn the books, but, according to Soviet tradition, to hand them over to waste paper.