![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/russian-children-forced-to-learn-blatant-lies-and-propaganda-on-ukraine-war-to-pass-exams/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_RUSSIA-UKRAINE-CONFLICT-POLITICS-EDUCATION.jpg&description=Pupils will now be taught that Ukraine is an "ultra-nationalist state" where "any dissent is severely persecuted" and "opposition is prohibited" - arguably more fitting to Putin's Russia Russian children will now be forced to learn overt lies, propaganda about the war in Ukraine and a "completely revised" history of the world in order to pass their exams. One chapter of a new history textbook written by a hardline Vladimir Putin aide is entitled: "Ukraine is a neo-Nazi state." Schoolchildren are taught Ukraine is an "ultra-nationalist state" where "any dissent is severely persecuted" and "opposition is prohibited", a description many would see as more fitting to Putin's Russia. Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky penned the chapter on Ukraine but the history of the past 50 years has been "completely revised" to fit Putin's worldview. He boasted: "No textbook has ever been created in our country in such a short time." The book is being rushed into schools by the first of September at the start of the new academic year and pupils will be tested on the content in state exams. The move is to counter scepticism among the young about Putin's war aims and to ensure the Kremlin tightens control over how history is viewed. The textbook aimed at teenagers claims that Russian forces "under no circumstances" have shelled residential neighbourhoods in Ukraine. It accuses the West of "the falsification of history", and instructs students in the "rebirth of Nazism." It skims over the losses of more than a quarter of million Russians killed or maimed by Putin's decision to go to war and his original belief that he would roll over Ukraine in a matter of days. The aim is to ram home "the tasks of demilitarisation and de-Nazification" in Ukraine, "so that schoolchildren are convinced that this is really the case", said education minister Sergei Kravtsov. He continued: "After the end of the special military operation [in Ukraine], after our victory, we will further supplement t){kind=link}
Pupils will now be taught that Ukraine is an “ultra-nationalist state” where “any dissent is severely persecuted” and “opposition is prohibited” – arguably more fitting to Putin’s Russia
Russian children will now be forced to learn overt lies, propaganda about the war in Ukraine and a “completely revised” history of the world in order to pass their exams.
One chapter of a new history textbook written by a hardline Vladimir Putin aide is entitled: “Ukraine is a neo-Nazi state.” Schoolchildren are taught Ukraine is an “ultra-nationalist state” where “any dissent is severely persecuted” and “opposition is prohibited”, a description many would see as more fitting to Putin’s Russia.
Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky penned the chapter on Ukraine but the history of the past 50 years has been “completely revised” to fit Putin’s worldview. He boasted: “No textbook has ever been created in our country in such a short time.”
The book is being rushed into schools by the first of September at the start of the new academic year and pupils will be tested on the content in state exams.