Posted on 05/30/2022 11:51:54 PM PDT by Enterprise
I think you’ll find that I do.
Russia is erasing Ukrainian completely from the school curriculum, in the occupied areas. Under penalty of arrest for noncompliance.
Russia’s cultural erasure in the schools it administers in the occupied regions is so severe that many elementary school teachers are risking arrest to boycott the reopening of their schools.
Their erasure goes far further than Ukraine erased Russian. Which is why even the Russian teachers in the Russian controlled areas are protesting it.
I happened to run across a column I had printed off in Dec. 2005. It's by Stephen Schwartz, is entitled "Denying the Soviet Holocaust," dated Dec. 9, 2005, and is responding to a commentary by Robert Conquest ("Stalinophilia") in The Wall Street Journal on Dec. 5, 2005.
Schwartz says, "Only this week, the neo-Stalinist Vladimir Putin prevailed on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)--which has a history of political corruption and mismanagement in postwar Bosnia-Hercegovina and Kosovo, as well as rampant anti-Americanism, even though the U.S. is an OSCE member--to let Russian troops remain on the impoverished territory of Moldova, the last trophy of Stalin's romance with Hitler."
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