Liberals opposed the military-patriotic education
Famous public figures opposed the introduction of the obligatory subject “Military-Patriotic Education” in Russian school curricula. “Formally, such education is aimed at preparing for service in the armed forces of the country. But in fact, it directly provides for the formation of a worldview based on the cult of the state, nation and army,” Russian civil society activists said in a statement said in a statement.
The document, in particular, was signed by Lyudmila Alekseeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Andrei Sakharov’s widow Elena Bonner, head of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation Sergey Kovalev, leader of the For Human Rights movement, Lev Ponomarev, head of the Right of Child organization Boris Altshuler, writer Boris Strugatsky, co-chair Right Cause Party Leonid Gozman, Executive Secretary of the Solidarity opposition movement Mikhail Shneider.
According to their data, “military-patriotic education” of children and adolescents is provided for by the concept of the federal system of preparing citizens of the Russian Federation for military service for the period up to 2020 of the year. The concept was approved in February 2010.
"Military-patriotic education inevitably includes biased preparation and mythologization stories his country, the uncritical glorification of those wars that were fought by his own country, the cult of a strong centralized power, "the statement says.
The authors of the document remind that "military-patriotic education has always been understood and understood as a holistic ideological doctrine." “The concept of“ military-patriotic education ”goes far beyond the limits of raising love for the Motherland, a natural attachment to one's culture, to one’s native land, to one’s own country,” write public figures.
“All together, this instigates nationalism, inspires children and teenagers about the unconditional priority of the interests of state power and national feelings over other values, including universal, humanistic and truly religious,” the authors of the document say.
In their opinion, the education system should be built "on the basis of modern humanistic and democratic principles, unconditional respect for the rights and dignity of the individual, on objective and comprehensive informing students about past events and the current situation in our country and the world."
Information