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		rcMgD2BwE72F on July 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 8-Part Film Adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina ... >"boycott all that is Russian" Is that a thing? I mean, besides a few extremists. I'm French and I haven't heard anything recommending to boycott Russian cultural goods. We can discuss this but it's probably negligible so let's not make this an "issue" until it is.

cal85 on July 11, 2022 [–]

It certainly was a thing. There was a spate of things like this happening in the first couple of months of the war:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-60684374

https://www.newsweek.com/college-backtracks-banning-teaching...

Hopefully that particular brand of stupidity is mostly over now though.

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