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In 2025, Minsk prosecutor’s offices issued 34 orders related to the sale of books designated as “extremist.”
Several more orders were issued at the beginning of 2026. The Prosecutor’s Office of Minsk’s Savetski District found in one online store the book by Heinz Guderian titled Memoirs of a German General. Germany’s Armored Forces in the Second World War, 1939–1945.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Minsk’s Zavodski District established that an individual entrepreneur was selling on a website books by Mike Omer, A Killer’s Mind and In the Darkness, which are banned in Belarus.
The same entrepreneur was also selling books by Rainer Zitelmann, Hitler: The Worldview of a Revolutionary, and by Wilhelm von Leeb and Franz Halder, Leningrad “Blitzkrieg” 1941–1942, which have been included on the list of “extremist materials.”
At the prosecutors’ demand, all printed publications were removed from sale, the Minsk Prosecutor’s Office reported.