“Our task is to make Ukraine simply non-existent.”
Immediately after the start of the full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine, the staff of the main publishing house of educational literature in Russia” Enlightenment “was strongly recommended to remove from school textbooks” incorrect “mentions Ukraine and Kiev , reports “Mediazone” with reference for three editors of the publishing house.
Although the course to “clean up” Ukraine and Kyiv from textbooks was taken in 2014, after February 24 year, according to editors, they had to “handwriting” about 15% of the texts.
Now editors must remove mentions of Ukraine wherever possible. For example, if the heraldry of different countries illustrated the flag of Ukraine, it should have been replaced by the flag of any other country.
paragraphs should give an example of the capital, Kyiv replaced another capital.
Sentences with the words Chernihiv and Lviv were recently found in a Russian textbook, and the editors had to change them urgently to other cities.
“That is, we were faced with the task: to make it as if Ukraine simply does not exist. This is much worse when the textbook is simply not about a country. A person grows up without a knowledge base about a country, and then it is much easier for him to believe what is being said about him on TV. Those who work on history textbooks have the hardest time: it is often impossible to remove the mentions of Ukraine and Kyiv without damaging the content, then we have to change the wording to “safer” ones, “says one of the editors.
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His colleague explains: “Kyiv is usually mentioned now in the context of the fact that it was the capital of Kievan Rus, and that we liberated Kyiv. We can remember how we “saved” Kyiv, but it is no longer possible to talk about any independence of Ukraine as a country. “
The request to remove “incorrect” mentions of Ukraine was conveyed by the authorities to subordinates at a “confidential” meeting. Also, each employee of “Enlightenment” during employment signs a large number of documents on non-disclosure of official information – violation of such agreements threatens immediate dismissal. According to the editors of the publishing house, after February 24, dismissal also threatens any manifestation of anti-war position: signatures on petitions, posts on social networks, participation in protests.
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