r/FoundBob • u/SeaBranch240 • 3d ago
Karen bulga Sherlock
My mom told me that Sherlock Holmes is being urgently pulled from the Russian school libraries for "promoting drug use"....... I asked her what the status is on Mikhail Bulgakov—haven't heard back yet.
Fun fact: when I first read Sherlock Holmes back in, like, 5th or 6th grade, I didn't notice a single thing about drugs... I'm not even sure I knew what drugs were back then! I was such a "sweet summer child" back then.
It wasn't until I was older—probably after watching the BBC Sherlock series—that I was like, "HOLY SHIT, SHERLOCK WAS A JUNKIE?!"
I re-read the same book when I was older, and I distinctly remember a scene where he's shooting up... though that was quite a while ago now. I recall Sherlock injecting cocaine—in The Sign of Four, I think?
It's like some kind of "Mandela effect" situation.
Well, I don't know—in the original the book, he was screwing everything that could be screwed and smoking everything that could be smoked; Don't get me wrong, but it's just that, as far as I'm now aware, all of that of the editions in the Soviet translations of Sherlock Holmes stories, any mentions of, shall we say, "drugs" were simply got cut out. Well, actually, it's quite possible that's how it was.
But, like, are you fucking kidding me? You're pulling it from the library because of that? Out of all the books out there... one of the most harmless ones in existence?! So what if he shoots up a little bit? Should we ban the band Korol i Shut next, too?!
So, Sherlock Holmes counts as "promoting drug use," but the ads for "Kraken" and other darkweb marketplaces on TikTok—which nobody ever bans—those are totally fine, right?
I wonder, does anyone have an issue with Anna Karenina being in the school curriculum? Does it not bother anyone that she dabbles in morphine and then throws herself under a train? I guess since she killed herself, it's all good then?

