The idiot state has clearly gone overboard with dumbing down the population. The resulting “product”...

🔖The idiot state has clearly gone overboard with dumbing down the population. The “product” that resulted from its long and persistent effort is fit for neither peace nor war.

Yet, knowing full well that the duller the people are, the more obedient they become, the Kremlin is stepping up its mass campaign to make them stupid.

That is understandable and rational.

As Putinism has shown in practice, the so-called “people” are expendable. There is no point in worrying too much about the development of a young lad destined to rot in a ditch in Donbas.

The intelligentsia, meanwhile, can always use some “dulling down” to keep it within the permitted bounds.

The intelligentsia, incidentally, is willing to grow stupid, realizing that intelligence in Russia has become a sentence and inevitably leads to “doing time.”

Naturally, books have been declared the idiot state’s chief enemy.

Victory over them has almost been achieved.

Publishers, editors, printers, translators, and everyone else who has tied their life to the book business are now letting out their final sobs.

Around 100 million rubles have already been spent just on removing and destroying banned books from the Chitai-Gorod–Bukvoyed chain.

The complete elimination of the banned books will require at least another 300 million.

Chitai-Gorod has already spent around 100 million rubles on removing and destroying banned books.

The largest bookstore chain, Chitai-Gorod–Bukvoyed, has spent around 100 million rubles removing from sale books that do not comply with the new laws.

“We can’t throw these books in the trash. They are toxic waste. They have to be disposed of, and that’s at our expense too.”

Disposal, as Brychkin explained, means destruction in an industrial shredder on camera.

The sum also includes the costs of taking books off shelves, returning them to the warehouse, transporting and processing them. Some books have not yet been destroyed and remain in storage, which he called “a special repository of sorts.”

The purge extends beyond Bukvoyed. Libraries, reading rooms, and small publishers are being combed through.

Absolutely everything that is alive, intelligent, and provocative, rather than aligned with traditional values, must be sent to industrial shredders and reduced there “to fine ash.”

This is not really about “gay” literature. Its share is negligible.

Scientific, atheist, biographical, historical, and geographical works that contradict Putinism, clericalism, or Russian racism in any way are to be devastated.