Immediately after the start of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, employees of the main publishing house of educational literature in the Russian Federation, Enlightenment, were urged to remove "
Although the course towards “cleansing” Ukraine and Kyiv from textbooks was taken back in 2014, after February 24 of this year, according to the editors, they had to “scratch out” about 15% of the texts.
Editors should now remove references to Ukraine wherever possible. For example, if the flag of Ukraine was in the illustrations of the heraldry of different states, it had to be replaced with the flag of any other country.
If it is necessary to give an example of the capital in the chapter, Kyiv was replaced by another capital.
Recently, sentences with the words Chernihiv and Lvov were found in a Russian textbook, and the editors had to “urgently” replace them with other cities.
“That is, we are faced with the task of making it as if Ukraine simply does not exist.. It's much worse when the textbook just doesn't mention a country.. A person grows up without a knowledge base about some country, and then it is much easier for him to believe what he is told about it from TV. Those who work on history textbooks have the hardest time: it is often impossible to remove mentions of Ukraine and Kyiv without compromising the content, then you have to change the wording to more “safe” ones, ”says one of the editors.
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His colleague explains: “Kyiv is usually now mentioned in the context of the fact that he was the capital of Kievan Rus, and that we liberated Kyiv.
You can mention how we "
The request to remove “incorrect” references to Ukraine was conveyed by the authorities to their subordinates at a “confidential” meeting. Also, each employee of Enlightenment, when hiring, signs a large 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 February 24, dismissal also threatens for any manifestation of an anti-war position: signatures on petitions, posts on social networks, participation in protests.