A new school textbook that compares Russia’s war in Ukraine to the Soviet struggle against the Nazis and says Russia was “forced” to send troops to Ukraine was presented in Moscow on Monday.
President Vladimir Putin described the war, which Moscow officially calls a “special military operation,” as a difficult but necessary fight against Western and NATO-backed Ukraine. He says it is part of a broader existential battle against a declining West that is trying to weaken and disintegrate Russia.
For their part, Ukraine and its Western allies say Russia is waging a brutal and unprovoked war merely to gain territory.
The three-volume “Military History of Russia” was edited by Putin’s ally Vladimir Medinsky, who led a delegation that unsuccessfully negotiated peace with Ukraine in 2022 in the early months of the war, and is already Russia’s chief executive. Co-author of the article. History textbook.
The third section, which is likely to be dismissed as propaganda by Ukraine’s leadership, is designed to be taught to children aged 15 and older.
It explains why the Kremlin believes the war began and how it is being fought, highlights what it considers incidents of battlefield heroism, and describes how the modern Russian military sometimes Uses techniques used by the Soviet military during World War II.
In a chapter titled “Professionalism, Indomitability and Courage: Russian Soldiers in Special Military Operations”, the book tells schoolchildren that Russia was “forced” to send its troops to Ukraine in 2022.
It said the West ignored Russia’s security concerns for years – a reference to the eastward expansion of the NATO military alliance, and what the book described as the Western-backed overthrow of a Russia-friendly Ukrainian president in 2014, Which changed Ukraine. In an “offensive anti-Russian bridgehead”.
NATO and Ukraine deny ever being a threat to Russia.
Speaking at a TASS news conference to discuss the new book, Ivan Besik, a military historian affiliated with the Russian army, said Western and Ukrainian actions had made war “inevitable.”
“The most important task was to explain to the younger generation, schoolchildren, the forced nature of the special military operation carried out by the Russian Federation,” he said.
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