Many popular fact posting pages claim that Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he didn't wear trousers and cavorted with an unmarried female duck!
This is an urban legend. It was sparked up by an incident in 1977, when Helsinki councilman Markku Holopainen proposed discontinuing the use of city funds for the purchase of Aku Ankka (a.k.a Donald Duck) comics for youth centers, as a reaction to financial difficulties. The following year, as Holopainen was running for a Parliament seat, his opponents then called him "the man who banned Donald Duck from Helsinki".
A funny thing worth noting is that though Donald (or Aku) doesn't wear pants, he requires a towel when coming out of the shower
For more refer:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aku_Ankka
- http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/finland.asp
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