“The task before us is to make it look like Ukraine simply does not exist.” Mentions of Kyiv and Ukraine are removed from the textbooks of the Prosveshchenie publishing house
“The task before us is to make it look like Ukraine simply does not exist.” Mentions of Kyiv and Ukraine are removed from the textbooks of the Prosveshchenie publishing house
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hi, you need to post also the article translated in the comments when it’s not in english
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On February 24, Vladimir Putin announced the start of a “special operation” and Russian troops invaded Ukraine. Immediately after that, employees of the Enlightenment group of companies, one of the largest and oldest publishers of educational and pedagogical literature in the country, were urged to remove the “incorrect” references to Ukraine and Kyiv from all school textbooks. “Mediazona” talked with the editors of the publishing house about how the “cleansing” of history, geography and literature is going on.
After the start of the war in Ukraine, the employees of the Prosveshcheniye received an unspoken order from the leadership to minimize the mention of Ukraine and Kyiv in Russian school textbooks. Three editors of the publishing house told about this “Mediazona”. They all requested anonymity; the request to remove “incorrect” references to Ukraine was conveyed by the authorities to their subordinates at a “confidential” meeting. In addition, the interlocutors of Mediazona explain that each employee of Enlightenment, when hiring, signs “a huge number of documents on non-disclosure of official information” – violation of such agreements threatens with instant dismissal.
According to the editors of the publishing house, after the start of the war, dismissal also threatens for any manifestation of an anti-war position – signatures on petitions, posts on social networks, participation in protests. “We are a publishing house that publishes literature that influences the minds of the younger generation. Refrain from expressing on social networks a point of view that is different from the official one, ”one of the Prosveshcheniya employees retells the words of the leadership.
Mediazona’s sources are confident that the authorities are ready to carry out their threats. Previously, the publishing house has already been fired for political statements in social networks: one of the editors of the department of historical literature lost his job for a post on Facebook. “No one forcibly dragged you here, so if you are not satisfied, write a statement,” this, according to the employees, was the position of the management.
The editors note that in Prosveshcheniye everything is “very formalized – continuous orders, circulars, documents are signed every month: “no”, “was not”, “was not involved”, and so on” – but at the same time they call their work interesting and important and therefore afraid of losing it.
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With the news about compulsory patriotic education for children in Russia, I wonder what a map of Russia looks like in their textbooks. I’d imagine it to be a lot bigger than the established borders in any common world map.
reality beats [fiction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Ministry_of_Truth)