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But reference information or an image inside the book will be considered, the Journal said.<\/p>\n<p>The new legislation is the latest in a string of Russia&#8217;s strict laws around distortion of the Soviet Union\u2019s role in World War II.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2014, Putin signed a law making the denial of Nazi crimes a criminal offense punishable by up to five years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Russian bookstores made headlines in 2015 when they began removing the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus\u00a0from their shelves due to the large swastika on its cover, JTA reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new law in Russia is cracking down on book covers with Nazi symbols, mandating bookstores to remove offending history books from their shelves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[146],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - 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