Alexey Melnikov: “Strangulation by the anthem”

“Just comparing the experience of the collapsed USSR with bureaucratic innovations is enough to understand the scale of stupidity into which some of the Russian authorities have fallen. This comparison alone would be enough for sober leaders to abandon the idea. “Even in the USSR this did not happen.” And dot.

The point, however, is something else - the forcible pushing of “patriotism” into schoolchildren. From childhood, people will associate this same “patriotism” with the word “coercion.” Why should this be so?

Perhaps a keen interest in Russian literature will give children much more in terms of knowledge of Russia than mantric chanting five days a week of flat poems by S.V. Mikhalkov, set to the music of the anthem of the Soviet state that died a quarter of a century ago?”