Russian students are fed propaganda in book co-written by Vladimir Medinsky, a former culture minister
Vladimir Putin has saved human civilisation by invading Ukraine, according to a new propaganda-heavy textbook being taught to Russian schoolchildren.
As the Kremlin struggles to explain to ordinary Russians why they are being asked to make sacrifices for the brutal invasion of its neighbour, Putin’s regime has doubled down on brainwashing students.
A year after Russia’s president ordered his officials to come up with a new history textbook for Year 11, the final year in Russian high schools, authorities have formalised a narrative that seeks to justify the Russian invasion and portray Moscow as a victim of the scheming West.
The textbook’s last chapter falsely claims that Ukraine was going to join Nato when President Putin decided to invade.