This reminds me of how both the French and the Nazis at different times objected to (or banned)…

…ooks in the 1933 bonfires because of their “decadence.” In the 1930s and 1940s, Hemingway’s classic The Sun Also Rises was banned in Soviet Russia for being anti-communist; in the 1980s, the same book was banned in a Florida school district for being pro-communist. A Farewell to Arms was once banned by the Italian government because it depicted Italian forces as …
The Lunatics Banning Books in Texas Have Reached a New Low
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This reminds me of how both the French and the Nazis at different times objected to (or banned) Renoir's classic film La Grande Illusion, for opposite reasons.
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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com
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