Russia will educate children on “heroism” of their soldiers in Ukraine
Pravda Ukraine
Starting 1 September, Russian schools will discuss the “heroic deeds” of Russian soldiers in the war against Ukraine, as well as other figures regarded as heroes by the aggressor country.
Source: Russian Ministry of Enlightenment (Ministry of Education) published a list of “war heroes” of the “special military operation”, which is how the Russian Federation calls its war in Ukraine
Details: The Russian Our Heroes list features militant Arsen Pavlov, known as Motorola, who was blown up in a lift, and propagandist Daria Dugina, who was blown up in a car.
According to Russian media, the programme was made available through the Unified content of general education webpage.
The list of people the Russian Federation wants to educate pupils about is organised into three categories: pre-revolutionary, Soviet, and modern Russia. The final category features, in particular, Vladimir Zhoga and Olga Kachura, terrorists and militants from Donetsk who fought for the Russian Federation and were killed in 2022.
The Ministry of Education advises that Russian teachers teach students about propagandist Daria Dugina (daughter of “Russian world” ideologist Alexander Dugin), Putinist traveller Fedor Konyukhov, hockey player Alexander Ovechkin, and other figures.
The website also includes links to videos about “preserving and strengthening traditional Russian values”.
The portion of the pre-revolutionary period was similarly incomplete without Russian propaganda. The Russians included in its list of heroes prince Volodymyr the Great of Kyiv, who they called the “symbol of Christian Russia”.
The Russian Federation recommends that students study the works of writers Mykola Hohol [Ukrainian-born writer better known as Nikolai Gogol] and Anton Chekhov, poets Alexander Pushkin and Fedor Tyutchev, composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and others.
From the Soviet period, the Ministry of Education honoured such “heroes” as Soviet marshals Georgy Zhukov and Konstantin Rokosovsky, “saboteur” Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, and other military personalities from the Red Army.
At the same time, the Russians attributed to this list the renowned Ukrainian designer and rocket builder Serhii Korolov, who was responsible for the first spacewalk.
Korolov was one of the creators of practical cosmonautics and the USSR’s first main designer of rocket and space technologies, but he had previously spent six years in Soviet forced labour camps.
In 1938, the Soviet authorities imprisoned him in the Gulag labour camp in Kolyma and then transported him to Moscow. Korolov collaborated with aircraft designer Tupolev, who was also a victim of Stalin’s terror, on the development of jet engines, and he was only released from prison earlier than expected in 1944.
Previously, Russian media reported that Medvedev advocated renaming Russian schools after veterans of the so-called “special military operation”.
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