Lithuanian Government Proposes Law To Ban Books That “Distort” History

Whereas several Eastern European countries have laws that limit free speech about the Holocaust, including Poland, Ukraine and Latvia, the bill targeting the sale of critical books “would be, if passed into law, one of the most blatant and harshest of them all,” said Holocaust historian Efraim Zuroff, who co-authored Our People with Rūta Vanagaite, a best-selling novelist.