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Dispute over paragraph turned into a demand to withdraw the textbook throughout the country
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As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, in September activists, scientists and politicians from the republics of the North Caucasus criticized a new school textbook on the history of Russia, in which the deportation of the peoples of the Caucasus was explained by their collaboration with the fascists. On October 5, scientists from Chechnya noted that the authors of a history textbook, blaming the peoples of the Caucasus for their deportations, provided false data without thinking about how this information would affect students. On October 10, one of the authors of the history textbook, MGIMO Rector Anatoly Torkunov, promised to change the paragraph about the deportation of the peoples of the Caucasus, which was published in a circulation of 755 thousand copies. The Karabulak prosecutor's office demanded that the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia conduct an analysis of the history textbook for extremism and incitement of hatred, human rights activist Magomed Mutsolgov reported. In his opinion, the information presented in the textbook also needs to be checked for the formation of a negative image of the victims of Stalin’s repressions. There was no mass support for the German fascists in the North Caucasus, and the version of the Soviet authorities about collaboration, which became the reason for the deportation of the Chechens and Ingush, is unfounded, historians Pavel Polyan and Pieter van Huis previously pointed out. The historians' arguments are confirmed by Wehrmacht archival documents analyzed by the "Caucasian Knot", cited in the article " Operation Shamil: how the failure of the Abwehr became the reason for the deportation of the Vainakhs." The textbook passed through many corridors of power before it was sent to print, and none of the officials had any objections to what was written, emphasized Tamara Malsagova, Acting State Advisor, Honored Worker of Culture of the Chechen- ChIASSR . According to her, if false facts about the republics of the North Caucasus are given in school textbooks, then these textbooks are subject to confiscation, and for the next edition it is necessary to carry out an examination with the involvement of scientists and teachers from these republics. “In addition, I believe that everyone who is related to the release of this textbook, and specifically to the paragraph on deportation, should be brought to criminal liability, because this is an unconstitutional act that leads to incitement of ethnic hatred. All those involved in the release of this shameful for our "The textbook's authors must be fired from their positions, and without the right to continue to engage in science, education, and upbringing of youth. The authors of the textbook are obliged to publicly apologize to the slandered peoples," says Tamara Malsagova. The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that the historian, author of the biography "Stalin. The Life of One Leader" Oleg Khlevnyuk noted that under Stalin, entire nations were declared "hostile." You can read about these and other most famous myths and reliable information related to the role of Joseph Stalin in the events of the Great Patriotic War in the “Caucasian Knot” reference “10 myths about the role of Stalin in the Great Patriotic War.” This textbook cannot be used to teach high school students, Marifa Maysigova, a history teacher at the first school in the village of Barsuki, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. “The authors agreed that significant changes need to be made. These changes will be made to the textbooks that our children and children in other republics, whose peoples were sent into exile, study from. And other high school students in Moscow, Ryazan, Tyumen and all of Russia will do the same study from this textbook and they will still remember the fact that a completely justified decision to deport was made against our peoples? We already know where the truth is and where the lies are. We want other regions of Russia to know the real truth, and not the one that the authors of the textbook Medinsky and Torkunov present to them,” the teacher believes. The textbook “History of Russia 1914-1945” (authors V.R. Medinsky, A.V. Torkunov, publishing house “Prosveshcheniye” 2023) on page 351 states that based on facts of cooperation with the occupiers of a number of peoples of the North Caucasus, as well as Crimean Tatars and Kalmyks, the State Defense Committee in 1943-1944 decided to liquidate state entities and subject these peoples to collective punishment - deportation. Posted by: badanov 2023-10-20 |
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