A photo from open sources Mikhail Bulgakov’s book “Dog Heart” It was a prohibited literary work in the USSR. After the collapse Of the Soviet Union all these absurd bans were lifted, and therefore the novel in Russia was even filmed by director Vladimir Bortko a wonderful two-part feature film. But it seems time democracy in art in the Russian Federation comes to an end.
For example, the prosecutor’s office of the city of Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk Region, recently banned teens from cleaning horror books, including also included the immortal novel of the Russian classic “Dog Heart”. TO this should be added that among the forbidden books in Zlatoust turned out to be the eastern tales of “A Thousand and One Nights”, it turns out children under the age of sixteen cannot be read.
Recall on this occasion, as at a meeting of the Human Rights Council Human Development and Civil Society Elena Masiuk on behalf of Moscow journalists asked Russian President Vladimir Putin how publishers can work under current law, according to which the books must be indicated age qualification? Indeed, according to this “lawmaking” and a fairy tale “Kolobok” can be recommended only to adult Russians, since it can “break the psyche of the child” and persuade him to vagrancy.
And since there is such a law, there are certainly law-abiding officials who will ban reading classics and even fairy tales to the younger generation. Youth today and so reads catastrophically little, so no, you also need prohibitions in this to establish. And the question is – why? After all, if desired, each a child can today find on the Internet any prohibited a book …
Maybe still give him the right to choose what read and what not? Or, in any case, do not slide into extremes that were inherent in secular time. Oh “Dog Bulgakov’s heart does not deserve to be impose at least some restrictions …
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