Donald Duck is cleared of EXTREMISM in Russia after banned wartime cartoon about Nazis was slapped on banned list
In a bizarre decision six years ago, the Walt Disney character fell foul of laws outlawing "extremist materials" even though the 1942 cartoon was an anti-Hitler classic
Donald Duck has been cleared of extremism in Russia after a court ordered the removal of a wartime cartoon about Adolf Hitler from a banned list.
In a bizarre decision six years ago, the Walt Disney character fell foul of Moscow legislation outlawing "extremist materials" even though the famous cartoon was an anti-Nazi classic.
The eight-minute 'Der Fuehrer's Face', made in 1942, features Donald Duck having a nightmare about life under Adolf Hitler.
In 2012, a local resident in Kamchatka, in the east of Siberia, uploaded the cartoon and was hit and he was given a suspended sentence for "inciting racial hatred" by the city court in regional capital Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky.
The cartoon was added to Russia's national list of "extremist materials" because of the court decision.
Later prosecutors realised the blunder and went back to court to admit Donald Duck was starring in a wartime propaganda film that was anti-Nazi, reported .