A
false urban legend.
When
Finland was cutting back on costs in the late seventies,
the
Helsinki youth affairs board decided to cut back on buying
some
comics for
youth centers.
Donald Duck was one that got the
chop (since
hobby and
sport comics were given higher
precedence).
When the man responsible (
Markku Holopainen) was standing for
parliament, a rival
party leaked to the press that he was '
the man who banned
Donald Duck from Helsinki'. The local
press expanded the story, and the
international press added the rest.
So, the original reason
Donald was chopped had nothing to do with his
nakedness, simply that it was seen as a frivolous use of
funds.