Donald Duck is not a Nazi, claims court

A COURT has cleared DONALD DUCK of being a dangerous political extremist after a six- year legal battle.

The highest court in the Russian Far Eastern region of Kamchatka has quashed an earlier ruling branding a 1942 Disney cartoon depicting Donald Duck’s adventures in Nazi Germany as ‘ extremist material’.

The ruling in question was passed by the city court of Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky in 2010 when a judge gave a six- month suspended sentence to a local resident for distributing extremist materials over the internet.

They included the Oscar- winning Disney animation Der Fuhrer’s Face.

But authorities now accept the cartoon was made within the framework of an anti- Nazi propaganda campaign.

Russian law bans any public calls for extremism or attempts to humiliate people and provides that such actions should be punished with up to five years in prison. Snickers bars are named after a horse owned by the Mars company.