“Extra lesson in most of Russia’s middle and high schools on the reasons for sending the Russian army to Ukraine. In a video of the Russian Ministry of Education, shown to all pupils in recent days, the dissolution of the “USSR and the consequent foreign propaganda. Hence, the reasons that pushed Russia to a military intervention. After the vision, the history teachers showed the children and gave answers to the most frequently asked questions”. It is what she tells Adnkronos Margarita Smolikova that she has a 16-year-old sister who lives in the Russian region of Krasnodar (about 200 kilometers from the Ukrainian border) and was among the pupils who attended the film at school.
“I saw the video, it talks about how Russia and Ukraine are twin nations with a lot in common historically. The intervention, it is explained, is not against the Ukrainians but rather was born to fight the western invader”, adds Smolikova.
The protagonist of the video is a little girl who tells and interviews. “Today we talk about what will help to understand what is happening, today’s events involving Ukraine”, says the girl in the video made as part of the patriotic education program in Russia, with the support of the Federation Ministry of Education. Russian. “Everyone is now ready, reading the news from different sources, to discuss, criticize, cry and scream. The space around us is filled with emotions and opinions, as many as there are people. The important thing is not to lose. the right path and find your own opinion: for this you have to understand that everything is a bit more complicated than it seems at first sight “.
“Everything we see today – continues the little girl – begins much earlier than our birth or the birth of our parents or grandparents … we spoke the same language, we have the same history, same traditions … Ukrainik or Ukrainians were called the people who lived on the borders. The term was used for different areas of ‘Rus’ (name used in ancient times for Russia) for example there were Pskov Ukraine or Siberian Ukraine. We are similar as two drops of water: we have similar national clothes, houses, customs, cooking … we celebrate the same holidays and read the same books to our children, we worked on the same land to share bread. Our ancestors fell in love and created families. We were part of one family. “.
Then in the second part of the video the girl asks questions to two experts. “How can you win the battle against a country with nuclear weapons? In direct battle? You can’t. Unless you turn the strength of this country against itself!”, Explains the expert who then cites the old method: ‘divide et impera’, or “the best way to control any country. To achieve it, it is enough to divide society and nations, create friction between them and use hatred between the parties to bring a country down”. At that point the little girl asks: “Are you referring to the fall of the USSR?” The girl says she is not convinced: “Didn’t the dissolution happen naturally?”. The expert replies: “It is a complex question, there have been many factors of both domestic and foreign policy”.
“So, forgive me, are all the demonstrations in Kazakhstan and Belarus part of the same ‘divide and rule’ plan?” Asks the girl. “Yes, it is. The fall of the USSR changed the world of many people and their point of view”.
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