Russia expands its propaganda with holding an all-russian open lesson with ironical name «Defenders of Peace», organised by the Institute of Education of the Russian Academy of Education. There, the schoolchildren will be told why «the liberation mission in Ukraine is a necessity,» reports Russian independent media «Meduza» with reference to the Ministry of Education of the russian federation.
The institute said that the lesson will be broadcast on March 3 at 12:00 Moscow time, hosted by Sofia Khomenko and journalist Denis Polunchukov, one of the moderators of russia’s main propagandist program «Vesti» on the TV-channel «Rossiya-1». The guest of the broadcast will be Peter Ishkov, an «expert» in military history.
«Listeners will be told the background of today’s events: about the danger NATO poses to our country [russia], why Russia stood up for the civilian population of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, and they will also help you figure out how to distinguish truth from lies in a huge stream of information, photographs and videos, which the Internet is full of today,» – the Ministry of Education said in a statement.
Earlier it was reported that schools in several regions of russia received recommendations for conducting lessons about the war in Ukraine, which sets out the official kremlin’s point of view on the russian invasion.
Thus, to the possible question «Is this a war with Ukraine? Was it possible to avoid it?» the teacher was urged to answer «There is not a war with Ukraine, but a special peacekeeping operation, the purpose of which is to contain the nationalists who oppress the Russian-speaking population.»
Translated by Vitalii Holich
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