Blue Lard author charged
Moscow prosecutors have charged writer Vladimir Sorokin with "spreading pornography" for depicting Stalin and Khrushchev as gay lovers in his satirical novel Goluboye Salo (translated as Blue Bacon Fat or Blue Lard in different sources). According to BBC News, "Mr Sorokin's book enraged members of Walking Together, a youth group which wears tee-shirts bearing President Putin's portrait. In June, they publicly ripped up copies of Blue Bacon Fat in central Moscow and threw them down a mock-up of a toilet bowl. . . . Since coming to power in 2000, Mr Putin has been accused of seeking to rehabilitate Stalin, at one point unveiling a bust to him as a war leader." More.
