“More than 2,500 work programs on the subject of“ History ”for senior classes were analyzed.
As a result of the audit, 70% of the programs revealed serious problems that require correction, ”TASS reports.
As specified, more than half of such programs in these schools "did not fully reflect the key events, or they did not at all" have information about the heroism and feat of the defenders of the Brest Fortress, the defense of Sevastopol and Odessa, the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials and a number of other important to "preserve the historical memory of events."
On April 21, during the announcement of a message to the Federal Assembly, Russian leader Vladimir Putin was surprised that some school history textbooks did not say anything about the Battle of Stalingrad.
After that, Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov promised to conduct a full analysis of school textbooks.
Later it turned out that a history textbook with an "extremely weak" reflection of the events of the Battle of Stalingrad is being used in the general education process in Russian colleges.
According to the head of the Ministry of Education, the department will not allow distortion of history in textbooks.