Russia’s New Textbook: Forced Invasion or Propaganda?
Russia issues a new school textbook that portrays its invasion of Ukraine as a forced action, a narrative that’s jarring in its audacity and chilling in its implications for the future. The textbook, intended for 15-year-olds studying Russian military history, frames the war as a necessary response to external pressures, effectively rewriting the narrative of a brutal and unprovoked aggression.
This blatant attempt to sanitize history is deeply troubling. The claim of being “forced” to invade, to commit acts of violence, torture, and destruction, is a grotesque distortion of reality. It’s akin to saying someone was forced to commit a domestic assault, a statement that ignores the agency and culpability of the perpetrator.… Continue reading
Matt Underwood