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Literary works that “have not stood the test of time and do not correspond to reality” should be excluded from the school curriculum, such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago. This was stated by Dmitry Vyatkin, First Deputy Head of the United Russia faction in the State Duma.
“This year, the necessary changes will be made to the school curriculum in literature, and at least a number of works by Soviet authors, including Alexander Fadeev’s The Young Guard, Yuri Bondarev’s Hot Snow, should return to the school curriculum. Those works that have not stood the test of time, that do not correspond to reality, “gossip in the form of versions”, as Vysotsky wrote and sang, without any doubt, should be excluded from the school curriculum. Here we will rely on the expert opinion of specialists in the field of pedagogy and culture, on the opinion of the parent and pedagogical communities, ”TASS quotes the words of the deputy.
Vyatkin stressed that the State Duma is not going to “chop off the shoulder”, but intend to restore historical justice in relation to Soviet works that instill a sense of patriotism and preserve historical memory.
“As shown by the historical analysis of the Gulag Archipelago, which has not yet been removed, and I think it will not be long in school programs, many facts were “sucked out of thin air” by Alexander Isaevich, invented. Historians have checked all the facts. There was an attempt to get a prize for this – for the fact that he blotted out his own Motherland in the mud, ”said Vyatkin.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novel “The Gulag Archipelago”, which tells about the repressions during the years of the USSR, was on into the compulsory school curriculum in 2009 on behalf of Vladimir Putin.
In January 2023 Putin declaredthat such works by Soviet classics as The Young Guard by Alexander Fadeev and How the Steel Was Tempered by Nikolai Ostrovsky should be returned to the school curriculum.