Moscow have unveiled a new schoolbook which aims to justify their invasion of Ukraine and also accuses the West of trying to take down Russia.
Schoolchildren will now be taught that the world would have ended had Vladimir Putin not launched his “special military operation” against Ukraine.
The textbook entitled ‘Russian History, 1945 – Early 21st Century’, is the first officially approved history book to be used in Russian schools.
It will be taught to pupils in their last year of secondary education, with students between the ages of 17 and 18 studying the book.
The textbook claims that the “West is fixated on destabilising the situation within Russia".
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It is very up-to-date, going over events as recent as the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
With the on-going war, the history textbook tries to convince school children about Russia’s actions against their neighbour.
The book was co-authored by presidential adviser Vladimir Medinsky, the former Russian culture minister.
The textbook claims that the “West is fixated on destabilising the situation within Russia".
To achieve this goal, Western powers have spread “undisguised Russsophobia”.
Western powers then dragged Russia into various conflicts and wars, with their ultimate aim beingb to destroy Russia, the textbook claims.
It portrays Ukraine as an aggressive state that needs dismantling, calling it a “battering ram” of the Western states, who use it repeatedly to attack Russia.
Schoolchildren will be taught lies and fabrications as history, with one example being the textbook’s description of the initial 2014 attack on Ukraine as a popular uprising of Donbas residents who “wanted to stay Russian”.
A woman walks past anti-war graffiti in support of Ukraine, painted on shutters in Dublin city
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It leaves out the military personnel and weapons Russia sent over to support the region over the following eight years.
Another false claim in the book is that until 2014, 80 per cent of Ukrainians considered Russian their mother tongue. A poll published by the Razumkov Centre in 2006, shows this figure to be 30 per cent.
The textbook warns its readers to stay clear of “a global industry manufacturing staged clips and fake photos and videos”.
“Western social networks and media all too enthusiastically spread fake information," the textbook says in a chapter about the "special military operation".
