Art Spiegelman warns of 'dangerous' outcome as Russian shops ban Maus

With top Moscow bookstores removing the Holocaust tale under a Nazi propaganda law, author sounds alarm: ‘We don’t want cultures to erase memory’

Art Spiegelman has called Russian bookstores’ decision to stop selling copies of Maus – his Pulitzer prize winning graphic novel about the Holocaust – the “harbinger of a dangerous thing”, as authorities move to purge Moscow of Nazi insignia ahead of the 70th anniversary of the allied victory in the second world war.

Moscow’s major bookstores have withdrawn copies of Spiegelman’s book – which includes a Swastika on its cover – in an attempt to comply with a law banning Nazi propaganda ahead of Victory Day on 9 May.

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