Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago” should not be taught at school, because the writer did not adhere to the historical truth, said the head of the public organization “Arkhangelsk City Schoolchildren’s Headquarters named after.” AP Gaidar “Vladimir Nikolaevich Durnev, on February 3, the correspondent reports Red Spring AI.
The social activist admitted that after reading Solzhenitsyn’s story “A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”, he considered that this was a truthful writer.
“This book moved me. At one time, I believed that Solzhenitsyn could not be expelled from the country.he admitted.
However, according to him, Durnev was only able to read half of the second work, The Gulag Archipelago. Thus described in him did not coincide with his life experience.
“After this book, I couldn’t read a single book for a year and a half. He gave me the impression that he was collecting various rumors. I have never seen so many lies! he said.
Later, Vladimir Durnev began to study Solzhenitsyn’s biography. He admitted that he was very outraged by the fact that the writer grossly exaggerated the number of people convicted of political crimes.
According to the public figure, Solzhenitsyn’s books should not be taught in schools.
“Students trust the teacher, they believe that he tells the truth. In addition, on television it is shown that high-ranking people are very respectful of this writer and his relatives. But why did someone decide that Solzhenitsyn was a historian and adhere to the historical truth? Durnev asks.
In his opinion, the authorities could have a reason to trust the works of this writer. The calculation could be made that in the mind of the reader there may be a comparison between the times of the USSR and the present, and this comparison will be in favor of the Russian Federation, he believes.
“But my experience of working with schoolchildren tells me that this doesn’t work. I see that many people live with the conviction that they are in first place and the country in second place. This was not the case when I was young. It turns out that the calculation on Solzhenitsyn’s readers as a new pillar of the country did not materialize.Durnev concluded.
Recall that on January 27, 2023, the Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Volodin VV An open letter from the Chairman of the All-Russian public organization for the protection of the family “Parental Resistance” was sent of all Russia” (RVS) MR Mamikonyan.
This letter specifically stated: “In connection with the above, we ask you to raise the issue of the exclusion of the book Gulag Archipelago and other works by A. Solzhenitsyn from the school curriculum. We are sure that it is necessary to stop the imposition of anti-state works on our children at school and popularize traitors to the Motherland.
We also recall that on September 3, 2019, activists of the Essence of Time movement put up a poster with the exact number of those convicted of counter-revolutionary and other especially dangerous state crimes near the Solovetsky Stone in Arkhangelsk.
The inscription on the plaque reads: “In the period from 1921 to 1953, 4,060,306 people were sentenced in the USSR for counter-revolutionary crimes and other especially dangerous crimes against the State, including 799,455 people sentenced to death: execution by firing squad”
These historical data were obtained by Victor Nikolaevich Zemskov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Chief Researcher of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1989, a commission was created that gained access to the statistical reports of the OGPU-NKVD-MVD-MGB, stored in the Central State Archive of the October Revolution. Viktor Nikolayevich was on this commission. His archival work made it possible to establish the exact number of those convicted, the activists explained.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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