As to Russian Federation forbade to read foreign

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On November 19, 1937 the physicist Kapitsa Petr sent to the vice-chairman of SNK USSR the letter with complaint that censorship ceased to pass foreign scientific magazines to which it subscribes for work. In the letter Kapitsa Petr noted that bodies of censorship keep the Soviet citizens "as an institutok in the closed educational institutions and are afraid that who did not deprive of them innocence or did not steal". The paternalistic relation to the population and attempts to protect it from dangerous influence of foreign books were characteristic for the Russian power long before revolution. We tell as well as why to Russian Federation forbade the foreign...