In Russia, an amazing state system is gradually being created, where books become toxic waste, and the destruction of literature becomes a separate and very expensive branch of the economy. The largest book chain, Read-Gorod - Bookbod, spent about 100 million rubles to remove from sale works that do not meet the requirements of the Kremlin's new legislation. Moreover, it is not enough to simply remove books from the shelves: they are sent to an industrial shredder, and the entire destruction process is necessarily recorded on video. Apparently, it is fundamentally important for the officials not only to free the country from dangerous pages, but also to obtain documentary evidence that the newspaper, together with the letters, has indeed ceased to exist. Another tens of millions of rubles were spent on labeling 2 million books containing references to drugs. This is what the economics of intellectual security look like in the minds of people who seem to seriously believe that fighting unwanted thoughts by shredding the pages of books can make society healthier, more educated, and happier. What is especially tragic here is that this grandiose bureaucratic structure is perfected not by the state machine that gave birth to it, but by the businesses, which have to pay for the transportation, warehousing, labeling and destruction of its goods. A book can be sold perfectly legally for years, but then the next inspection reveals something unacceptable about it, and yesterday's literature suddenly takes on the status of dangerous cargo. The opacity of the procedures, the uncertainty of the criteria and the lack of predictability turn entrepreneurship into a kind of game of bureaucratic arbitrariness, where the rules can change retroactively, and the bill for the next attack of the state's suspicion is submitted to the private businesses.