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Russia produced new school textbook that distorts the history of the war against Ukraine and urges teenagers to join the army (www.bbc.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/10335519

The first textbook for the new subject, called The Russian Army in Defence of the Fatherland, has been produced by leading Russian education publisher Enlightenment. Among its authors are two senior figures who work for the defence ministry and Kremlin newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta.

Its 368 pages are filled with stories describing the "heroic achievements of Russian soldiers" from the 13th Century to the present day.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

not that anyone needs to be, but to be fair, the American government is big on telling teens to join the army too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I was wondering how far down I would have to scroll before seeing some variation of 'America Bad'.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah, the propaganda is killing the Lemmy experience.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

America is pretty bad, so not that far.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

According to my history books, all the wars that were ever fought were won by the good guys. What are the odds of that? Isn't that great?

-Norm MacDonald

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Also not great, although I have to say that it's quite a lot easier to criticize the US military than it is to criticize the Russian military.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

All western countries are telling their youth - one way or another - are doing it, in the wake of Russia's militarization. As for the US asking their citizens to join the army, it became a meme of some sort due to how frequent it happens to be, but other countries, save for a couple of them, are not better. Russia has had many spots and I watched one of them. It's exactly as you imagine that. Very glorious and macho. Comically so. But you know wars aren't like that.

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"We cannot convey alternative viewpoints to the students. So this textbook will assist you in addressing children's questions and providing accurate coverage of certain events."

Holy moly this 1984's style of speech, if you read the book you know what I'm mentioning here. Anyway, doing shrooms will give you a better insight than that piece of propaganda.