[planarhobbit]

It’s a very strange emotional appeal. Yes, you can ban first-hand imports of Russian culture, or any other nation. But what about all the ways in which your culture has already been affected by decades and decades of integrating these works because they stand on their own, aesthetically speaking, regardless of their origin?

I’m reminded of an equally strange move, in an equally strange vein: “Freedom Fries.”

[Koshkin]

Why is this strange? Wartime changes many things, and propaganda is a powerful weapon.

> Freedom Fries

How about "Today Baghdad, tomorrow Paris!"

[ROTMetro]

German language newspapers in the USA went from over a thousand to almost gone during WW1.