A new school textbook compared to Russia’s war in Ukraine with the Soviet struggle against the Nazis and says that Russia was “forced” to send troops to Ukraine appeared in Moscow on Monday.
President Vladimir Putin launches the war, which Moscow officially calls a “special military operation”, as a difficult but necessary struggle against a Ukraine backed by Western and NATO. He says it is part of a broader existential battle against a decadent west that tries to weaken and dismembered Russia.
On the other hand, Ukraine and his Western allies say that Russia is fighting a brutal and not provoked war, simply to gain territory.
The “Military History of Russia” of three volumes was edited by Vladimir Medinsky, a Putin assistant, who headed a delegation that had non -success conversations with Ukraine in 2022, in the first months of the war, and was already co -author of The main Russian of Russia. History textbook.
The third volume, which will probably be discarded by Ukraine leadership as propaganda, is designed to be taught to children 15 years or more.
Explain why the Kremlin believes that war began and how it is getting rid, highlights what it considers of the heroism of the battlefield, and describes what the modern Russian army is sometimes uses techniques used by the Soviet army during World War II .
In a chapter entitled “Professionalism, indomitability and courage: Russian troops in the special military operation”, the book tells schoolchildren that Russia was “forced” to send its troops to Ukraine in 2022.
He says that the West had ignored the security concerns of Russia for years, a reference to the expansion to the east of the NATO military alliance, and what the book described as the demolition of a Ukrainian president backed by Russia in 2014, which, which He had turned Ukraine into an “aggressive anti -rhyme bridge head.”
NATO and Ukraine deny a threat to Russia.
Speaking at a Tass press conference to discuss the new book, Ivan Basik, a military historian affiliated with the Russian army, said Western and Ukrainian actions made war “inevitable.”
“The most important task was to explain to the youngest generation, the schoolchildren, the forced nature of the special military operation carried out by the Russian Federation,” he said.
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