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| Author of the history textbook promised to change the paragraph about the deportation of the peoples of the Caucasus |
| 2023-10-11 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] After outrage from politicians, scientists and activists from the North Caucasus, changes will be made to the Russian history textbook, which explains the deportation of the peoples of the Caucasus by their collaboration with the fascists. But we are talking about only one paragraph, said one of its authors, Anatoly Torkunov. As the "Caucasian Knot reported, in September the "Russian Congress of the Peoples of the Caucasus" and the Council of Ingush Elders criticized the 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. The "Congress of the Karachay People" demanded that the circulation be confiscated. 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. 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." After outrage from politicians, scientists and activists from the North Caucasus, changes will be made to the history textbook, but this is only about one paragraph, said one of its authors, MGIMO rector Anatoly Torkunov. “A textbook will appear for fifth to ninth grades by the new year,” RIA Novosti quoted Torkunov as saying today. The history textbook has been rewritten 40 times, he added. “And in tsarist times, it was also rewritten many times, and our great historians, starting from Karamzin, Solovyov, Klyuchevsky, also made corrections, additions, changes in their time. So, of course, they will be made to this textbook both now and to the new academic year, when he will go to the 10th and 11th grades,” Torkunov said. The scientist noted that amendments to the history textbook will be made in the future, as new data appears. “Especially when it comes to modern history, history continues, it doesn’t stop there,” noted the MGIMO rector. The textbook says that based on the facts of cooperation with the occupiers (all repressed peoples are listed), the State Defense Committee in 1943-1944 decided to liquidate state entities and subject these peoples to collective punishment - deportation, the scientist Abdulla Bugaev said earlier. “But a fact translated from Latin - factum - made, that is, a fact is a reliably established event, real and not fictitious. There were manifestations of an anti-Soviet nature on the territory of the republic. But their scale is in no way comparable to similar relapses in other regions of the country. Statements of the authors textbooks about cooperation between Chechens and Germans are unfounded. This is what today's youth call fakes," he explained to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The edition of the textbook, in which the deportation of the peoples of the Caucasus was explained by their collaboration with the fascists, caused a wide resonance in the republics of the North Caucasus, noted political scientist Ali Magomadov . “Such mass unity in the Internet space has not been observed for a long time. Almost everyone demanded that the entire circulation of the textbook “History of Russia 1914-1945” be withdrawn (authors V.R. Medinsky, A.V. Torkunov, publishing house “Prosveshchenie”, 2023). this is 755 thousand copies,” he told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent. Let us recall that on September 23, the speaker of the Chechen parliament, Magomed Daudov, said that the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov , demanded to rewrite the chapter of the history textbook, co-authored by Vladimir Medinsky and Anatoly Torkunov. According to Daudov, he brought this issue to the head of the presidential administration department and to the co-author of the textbook, presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, and Medinsky “admitted that this chapter was taken without changes from previous editions and assured of his readiness to put it in order.” 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.” |
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