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New Russian Textbooks
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Posted by: BluesTraveler

New Russian Textbooks to show history slightly different light?

http://www.exile.ru/blog/detail.php...15582&AUTHOR_ID

Here's a few lessons from a textbook called "Russian History from 1945—2007":

1. The abolition of directly elected regional governors was a good thing because "regional governments could not effectively function during a crisis-type situation" ( e.g. responding terrorist attacks). The implication here is that rigid, top-down vertical political structures are a necessity in Russia's democracy.

2. The re-privatization of Yukos "finally put an end to oligarchs hoping to maintain personal control over the Russian government" and put the country's wealth back into the hands of the Russian people.

3. Some countries give up sovereign rule to other more powerful countries in exchange for security. Case in point: Georgia after Saakashvili was elected in 2004. Countries such as these are puppets and do not represent their people's will. As such, they are illegitimate.

4. Stalin was an "effective manager," taking Russia from the plow to the atomic bomb in just a few years. His repressions were necessary to mobilize for war and industrialize Russia so quickly. In general, the ratings of past leaders goes like this: Khrushchev is bad because he weakened the government; Brezhnev is good because he restored it; Gorbachev and Yeltsin are both bad because they let the Soviet Union fall apart; Putin has been Russia's best leader because he restored strong "vertical" power (which was established by Stalin).

and the original Russian news story
http://newsru.com/russia/25dec2007/uchebnik.html

Posted by: AkMike

It's amazing what spin Doctors can do with the truth.