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It's legal again in Russia to watch this 1942 Donald Duck cartoon

It's legal again in Russia to watch or share the 1942 Disney cartoon “Der Fuehrer's Face,” an anti-fascist short starring Donald Duck. 

The cartoon, which won an Academy Award the year it was released, was added to Russia's list of illegal extremist materials in 2010 by a court in Kamchatka. In September 2015, two men were convicted of uploading the cartoon to the Internet (along with several songs by a white supremacist band) and fined about $40.

Donald Duck—Der Fuehrer's Face
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Earlier today, a judge reversed the Kamchatka court's decision, following an appeal by local prosecutors, finding that the cartoon does not, in fact, propagate fascism and actually portrays the ideology satirically. 

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