Is it true that Donald Duck is prohibited in Finland?

According to a common city legend, the Finnish authorities banned comics and cartoons with one of the most famous Disney characters. We checked how much this is true.

On the Internet it is easy to find publications, the authors of which report such censorship to Donald Daka. Such materials are, for example, on "Yandex.Zen" and website of the radio station "Silver rain", users write about this Facebook And public "VKontakte". The author of the selection on the Adme website even clarifies: "The Helsinsky Committee on Youth Affairs believes that these cartoons distort family values, threaten morality and promote an unhealthy attraction to money."

In the early 1950s, the largest Finnish media company Sanoma decided to expand her business. So, she Received From the Disney Corporation License to the publication of comics about Donald Daka. In the Finnish edition, the character received the name AKU ANCKA (literally "duck AKU") and quickly became popular Among local readers - magazines about this hero were published in huge circulations.

The legend that the authorities have banned a “obscene” character, Starts In the 1970s. In 1977, the Helsinki politician Matti Solopainen proposed to save on the purchase of magazines for youth centers, in particular, to purchase not popular, but expensive comics, but cheaper publications about various hobbies and sports. A year later, Solopainen ran for the national parliament, and in the press he remembered this initiative. At the same time, journalists hyperbolized the story, calling the politician "a man who forbade Donald Daku entry into Helsinki." Slopainen in the end lost those elections. The initiative to save budget funds in Helsinki (like several years earlier in the city of Kemi) gave rise to numerous publications in the media around the world, whose authors spoke about the “ban” of the character due to the lack of pants and an unobvious marital status on it.

Despite such media publications, the popularity of the ACCA ACCA in the country has only grown-because of this even appeared The version that the story of the “prohibition” of ducks without pants was actually an advertising campaign invented by either Disney or Sanoma. In any case, in the absence of such a ban is now easy to make sure: in 2010 a magazine about AKU ANKA remained In the top three best sold in Finland. There is a special one websitewhose users can buy comics about their favorite character in Finnish (including recently published) and thematic souvenirs. In 2001, Finnish mail Issued Dedicated to ANKU ANCKA Block of brands, and the author of comics about Donald Daka Don Rosa became a real star in the country. He repeatedly He came In Helsinki for meetings with readers, and in 1999 Published The comic book The Quest for Kalevala, in which the story of Donald Dak and his relatives is intertwined with the famous Finnish epic.

Not true

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Read on the topic:

1. Snopes. WAS Donald Duck Banned in Finland BecAuse He sodesn’t Wear Pants?
2. Finnish thematic site AKU Ankka
3. Article about Aku Annka On the Finnish portal Yle