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Russians pay tribute to writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/08/05/6354321-ap.html

‘...Putin himself expressed concern about public memory, calling later Tuesday for Solzhenitsyn’s works to become an important part of the Russian school curriculum.

“Together with the entire nation he lived through a great tragedy of repression,” Putin said in a meeting with the education minister. “He not only lived through it, but ... through his works and his entire life he inoculated our society against tyranny in all its forms.” ...

Alexander Kamensky, of the Russia State University for the Humanities, said the manual was a sign that teaching history in schools has become "an ideological instrument."

Not as long as the students can read 'A History of Russia, 1900-1945' AND the works of Solzhenitzyn, who exposes Stalin as the monster he was. Let them read both and make up their own minds.