Media: in St. Petersburg, schoolchildren were removed from classes for the "Union of Salvation"

Petersburg schoolchildren are shot from lessons to show the film "The Union of Salvation". Attention to this was one of the first to pay the telegram channel “We can explain”.

According to MO, on May 24, students are allegedly invited to see students in grades 7–8, and each school should provide a turnout of at least 100 people. With reference to the source in one of the telegram channel schools, he also writes that the trip to the cinema is paid by the city administration, and in the teacher's chats they say that the presence at the show is mandatory: the students allegedly cannot get out of it or leave.

“Paper” studied social networks and also found several posts dedicated to watching the film “The Union of Salvation”. Most of them are located in the communities of secondary educational institutions of the Frunze district of St. Petersburg. For example, the publication of school No. 314 claims that “on May 24 there will be no lessons” because of a campaign in the “Mirage Cinema”. The publication of school No. 364 states that the viewing will take place the “Cinema Formula”. Both cinemas are located in Kupchin. A session for students of the first of these schools is scheduled for the first half of the day, when the lessons are still going on - 12:30.

The press service of the district administration “Paper” said that “no one shot students from lessons, especially on the eve of the exam”, assuring that visiting cinemas is carried out outside-city time.

The question of who pays for a trip to the cinema was left unanswered there. “You come to the schedule. If there are free places, they give you a free ticket, ”the press service said instead. The representative of the district administration also noted: “We regularly arrange free film screenings, and the preferential is constantly constantly.”

According to the data on the Smolny website, the show of the film “Salvation Union” is shown to St. Petersburg schoolchildren on May 24 as part of the film action “The Great History of St. Petersburg in Big Cinema”. The city authorities said that it is called to “revive a good tradition when they went to films with whole classes”, as well as support city cinemas that suffered due to coronavial restrictions. This year, the middle classes are shown not only by the “Salvation Union”, but also by the Leningrad Symphony on 42 large screens of St. Petersburg (including large networks “Mirage”, “Karo” and “Cinema Formula”, as well as the Angletter and House of Cinema). In Smolny, it is expected that the sessions will visit more than 110 thousand spectators.

The Salvation Union is a military-dramatic feature film by Andrei Kravchuk, who was produced by the head of Channel One Konstantin Ernst and was released at the end of 2019. The picture talks about the uprising of the Decembrists on Senate Square in St. Petersburg. The tape was ambiguously appreciated by critics: some of them claimed that it incorrectly reflects the “historical truth”. One of the authoritative modern researchers of the historical event Jacob Gordin also spoke about it. In his interview, he spoke critically about the film, but did not see a political order in the picture.

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