Russia has included books about the occupiers on the reading list for schoolchildren
The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation has officially approved an updated list of required summer reading, adding propaganda works about the so-called “heroes of the special military operation.”
This was announced by the head of the ministry, Sergey Kravtsov, during a meeting of the Council for the Support of the Russian Language and the Languages of the Peoples of Russia. According to him, the list has been clearly defined and distributed by school grade, and the new additions are exclusively “patriotic in nature” and dedicated to the “feats of modern defenders of the fatherland.”
The list of contemporary politicized literature for Russian schoolchildren now includes the following books:
“Shadows of Donbas: Small Stories of a Great War” by Oleg Roy;
“Heroes of the Great Patriotic War: Symbols of Russian Courage” by Mikhail Fedorov;
“Donbas—The Heart of Russia” by Oleg Izmaylov.
In addition to works about the current war against Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Education has reinstated or added a number of Soviet works about World War II to the summer reading lists. Among them are the poem “The Artilleryman’s Son” by Konstantin Simonov, the short story “The Russian Character” by Alexei Tolstoy, the novel “The Young Guard” by Alexander Fadeev, and the adventure novel “In August 1944” by Vladimir Bogomolov. The inclusion of these books in the school curriculum is part of a large-scale state campaign by the Kremlin to indoctrinate young people and militarize the educational process in Russia.
Source: The Moscow Times.
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