
From Euromaiden Press by Halya Coynash:
The most shocking aspect of Russia’s surreal lies about its war, Ukraine and the role of the west, is that Moscow will be using this to try to indoctrinate children in occupied Ukraine
Russia’s education minister has presented a new school history textbook which blames Kyiv and the West for its war of aggression against Ukraine and calls Russia “a country of heroes”. Russian school history textbooks have been filled with distortions about recent events since (at least) Russia’s invasion of Crimea in 2014. This new book, however, breaks all records in replacing factual information with overt, and hysterical, propaganda. The aim is essentially to zombify children, who are no longer presented merely with isolated distortions, but with an entire diet of lies. This must essentially be learned off by heart as the claims bear no scrutiny, and additional questions may get the teenagers, or their parents, facing charges of ‘discrediting the Russian armed forces’ or of ‘spreading fakes’.
The most shocking part of all of this, and a likely war crime, is that Moscow will be using this ‘textbook’ to try to indoctrinate children on occupied Ukrainian territory.