{"id":26666,"date":"2025-01-28T11:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T09:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=26666"},"modified":"2025-01-28T15:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:16:13","slug":"school-history-textbooks-as-a-tool-of-kremlin-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/results\/rf-en\/school-history-textbooks-as-a-tool-of-kremlin-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"School history textbooks as a tool of Kremlin propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has introduced a new history textbook for grades 6\u201311, authored by Vladimir Medinsky, an aide to the Russian president and known for publishing other \u201cideologically correct\u201d textbooks.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f The textbook claims that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin \u201chad no choice\u201d but to start the war against Ukraine, alleging that the West and NATO \u201cignored Russia&#8217;s interests\u201d and turned Ukraine into an \u201caggressive anti-Russian stronghold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin has weaponized education as a tool for propaganda and controlling public perception. Moscow recognizes that school-age education shapes fundamental views on history and politics, which influence perspectives later in life. By embedding propaganda into school materials, the Kremlin aims to cultivate a generation that views the actions of the Russian government, including its war of aggression against Ukraine, as \u201cjustified\u201d and \u201chistorically valid.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has introduced a new history textbook for grades 6\u201311, authored by Vladimir Medinsky, an aide to the Russian president and known for publishing other \u201cideologically correct\u201d textbooks. \u25ab\ufe0f The textbook claims that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin \u201chad no choice\u201d but to start the war against Ukraine, alleging that the West and NATO \u201cignored Russia&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}