MOSCOW, June 22 The West for many For years he has been trying to change historical education in Russia by removing information about the heroism of the people of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War from school textbooks, said Nikolai Patrushev, assistant to the President of the Russian Federation and permanent member of the Russian Security Council, in an article for the National Defense magazine.
«Under the guise of joint scientific research and international educational activities, Westerners have been trying for many years to completely reformat historical education in the Russian Federation, removing fundamental knowledge about the heroism of the Soviet people from school textbooks,» Patrushev wrote.
According to him, the deheroization of soldiers and officers of the Soviet army was accompanied by the praise of traitors and attempts to “rethink” the decisions of the Nuremberg trials.
«The truth about the atrocities of the fascists was hushed up by Western propaganda for decades. This trend did not bypass Russia either — in our country a generation grew up that studied from the «Soros» history textbooks, where the tragedy of the Great Patriotic War and the heroic deed the Soviet people are shown in passing, and the role of Europe, united with militaristic Japan to attack the USSR, was consistently whitewashed,” Patrushev noted.