In the depths of the Russian State Library, Marina Chestnykh takes the creaking elevator up to the ninth floor. She walks past stack after stack of books behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows. This is the spetskhran, or old special storage collection — the restricted-access cemetery for material deemed “ideologically harmful” by the Soviet state. …
Der ganze Artikel. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/inside-the-soviet-unions-secret-erotica-collection/502407.html
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