now they’re erasing mentions of ukraine from russian textbooks (x)
After the war in Ukraine broke out, the staff of Prosveshchenie (literally, Enlightenment in Russian) was tacitly ordered by the management to reduce the number of references to Ukraine and Kyiv in Russian school textbooks to a minimum, said three editors of the publishing house. All of them asked for anonymity; the request to remove “inappropriate” references to Ukraine was conveyed at a «confidential» meeting. Moreover, they explain that every Prosveshchenie employee has to sign “a great number of non-disclosure agreements” or risk immediate firing.
[…] “That is, we have a task to make it look as if Ukraine simply does not exist,” says their colleague. “It’s hugely problematic when a textbook simply has no information about a country. A child grows up without any knowledge about this country, it would be much easier for them to believe the TV”.
It is particularly challenging for those who work on history textbooks: removing references to Ukraine and Kyiv without compromising the quality is often impossible, so editors have to work around with wording alterations to play “safer”
“But if possible, it is better not to mention Ukraine at all. Now the textbooks mention Kyiv mostly in the context of Kyivan Rus and the liberation of the city during the Second World War,” one editor says.
so john silver in treasure island was fully like “ye captain flint was afraid of me when we were young but i was and still am OBSESSED with him, so”
“yes it’s NORMAL to still talk about a dead man twenty years after i killed him and to go back to the place where i betrayed him and to name my fucking parrot after him because i miss saying his name out loud shut UP okay”
