The State Duma wanted to remove the Gulag Archipelago from the school curriculum

The State Duma wanted to remove the Gulag Archipelago from the school curriculum

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Works that “have not passed the test of time” should be excluded from the school literature curriculum, Dmitry Vyatkin, first deputy head of the United Russia faction in the State Duma, said in a conversation with TASS.

At the same time, as an example of such works, he named Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago. According to Vyatkin, in this work “many facts … were sucked from the finger, invented.” According to the deputy, Solzhenitsyn “smeared his own homeland in the mud.”

Vyatkin also pointed to the need to “restore historical justice” in relation to Soviet works and noted that in 2023 a number of literary works by Soviet authors will be included in the school curriculum, including “The Young Guard” by Alexander Fadeev and “Hot Snow” by Yuri Bondarev.

At the same time, the deputy stressed that in the decision to exclude texts from the program, the authorities would not “chop off the shoulder” and would rely on the “expert opinion of specialists”, as well as on the “opinion of the parent and pedagogical communities”.

Source: Rosbalt

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