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Shop at Karona mall sells books about “absurd state of Belorussia”

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Certain books sold freely in Minsk provoke bewilderment.

A BelaPAN reporter bumped into one of those in a shop, located at the Karona shopping mall in Belarus’ capital.

Aleksey Kofanov’s book “Russia: On the way to victory” is accompanied with a pretentious writing on the cover: “From the author of the national bestseller “Russian tsar Iosif Stalin”. Having randomly leafed through the book, we land, for example, on the page 329, where we can read: “Russia, Rus must be first of all a country of Rusins – without the division into branches. “A state of Ukraine”, a “state of Belorussia” are absurd and unthinkable. <…> The unification of Greater Russia is unavoidable, and it will only bring good to all the branches of our great people – although Western occupants inspired the opposite conviction into many little-Russians. “Divide and conquer” – is the standard policy of the aggressors. It is okay, the faulty convictions will dispel in time”.

The desire was lost to leaf further through the “bestseller” with worn-out great-power nonsense, but there will be definitely be plenty to think of for the Republic’s Expert Commission on assessing information products as to containing the signs of extremism. It is its field to play.

Kofanov’s book came out in February 2014, when the “unification of Greater Russia” was being implemented in Ukraine to its utmost. It is hard to argue with the author’s claim that “faulty convictions dispel in time”. Like the powder fumes over Luhansk and Ilovaysk, dispel the illusions of Ukrainians as to brotherly relations and common origins with their northern neighbor.

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