Medinsky urged to return the truth to schools

After perestroika, the memory of the Great Patriotic War was largely lost, and now the falsification of history is ongoing. According to Interfax, the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky made such a statement.

"The fact that the Ministry of Education and Science is now systematically engaged in the enlightenment and restoration of our true history, military -historical memory, that the standard of teaching history has been developed last year is a wonderful, correct business. We will return our generation, we will return the truth to our schools," the minister said.

Medinsky noted that in the 1990s he "did not get tired of surprising" where the knowledge of schoolchildren about the military years disappeared. “They talked as with an empty place. Empty eyes in children who are washing the brains of the TV screen who do not find real literature, confused teachers,” he recalled.

Also, according to Medinsky, in the 1990s, going to the bookstore on Victory Day, he saw racks at the entrance, lined with volumes with the memoirs of Nazi generals. “And the memories of our marshals, not to mention the memoirs of our soldiers, about our great classics, front -line prose, they were somewhere there, on the lower shelves, in the depths of the hall. If they were at all,” the minister complained.

The Ministry of Education and Science has developed the program "Patriotic education of citizens of the Russian Federation for 2016-2020". At the moment, the document has been put up for public discussion on a single state. According to the program, in five years the number of Russians "proud of their country" should grow by eight percent.

In November 2014, the head of the Ministry of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov proposed introducing a single approach to teaching history not only at school, but also in universities. A single concept of teaching history was introduced into schools since the 2014-2015 academic year.

A single historical and cultural standard appeared instead of a single history textbook, the initiator of which in 2013 was Russian President Vladimir Putin. He noted that in new textbooks, double interpretations of historical events should not be allowed.