A new textbook — churned out in just four months — echoes Kremlin propaganda justifying the war in Ukraine.
A new textbook — churned out in just four months and touted as the first state effort to unify teaching of the subject since the Soviet era — echoes Kremlin propaganda justifying theThe book will be used by history teachers across the country, including in Russian occupied Ukrainian territories, to teach students in their final year of high school about the period from 1945.
Schools must now play the national anthem and raise the flag at the beginning of each week, and there are plans for classes that involve increased basic military training, which could be taught by returning soldiers. Russian schoolchildren take part in a parade with a national flag during a "first bell" ceremony to mark the beginning of the school year in Moscow on Friday.They extol the then-Soviet Union, even under Joseph Stalin — whose image as a brutal dictator has beenunder Putin — and paint its collapse as a great tragedy, just as Putin does.
“This has nothing to do with history. It’s hardcore propaganda, Soviet-era style,” said a former history teacher, who did not want his name published over fear of repercussions for his family still in Russia. Putin's portrait adorns the new Russian schoolbook that mentions the country's ongoing military action in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea in 2014.But Eidelman said it fails badly at that, because it gives only one point of view.
Putin has used his interpretation of Russia’s imperial past as a pretext for invading Ukraine — a subject on which“I would have been surprised if this kind of textbook was not created,” he added.the use of the new textbooks in occupied regions, accusing Russia of “using education as a weapon.” The new textbook is “a new level of militarization of education and propaganda of war among children,” Ukrainian human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets added.
Russia is, of course, far from the only country to have politics influence how history is taught in classrooms.
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