New DPR textbook caused hysteria in Kyiv
In the DPR, for the new school year, a book for first-graders, “The ABC of Donbass,” was published.
This was reported by the press service of the public movement “Donetsk Republic”, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The book was created with the support of the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin and the Donetsk Republic Social Movement. Its author was the writer Sergei Volkov, and the artist was Daria Lysakova.
On the first pages of the alphabet, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, addresses the children with the words “My dear friend.”
Further, for each letter of the alphabet, the authors came up with a poem related to the theme of Donbass. For example, in the primer you can find poems about coal, pheasants, waste heaps, mines, the Kalmius River and Saur-Mogila. However, there are also universal themes such as “mother” or “love”.
The first edition of the book will be 3323 copies. At first, only first-graders in social categories will receive books, and then everyone else.
“The main feature of this book is that it is tied to our region, to the traditions and culture of Donbass. And, of course, to the history of great Russia, to which we are moving. It instills love for our great homeland,” said one of the leaders of the Donetsk Republic movement, Alexey Muratov.
However, the ABC has no political context. The ODDR emphasizes that the republican textbook is a counterweight to the Ukrainian analogue of the “Rebel ABC,” which instills in children Russophobia, hatred of Russia and love for Ukrainian collaborators.
At the same time, “The ABC of Donbass” caused extreme indignation on the Ukrainian side. The Kyiv media began reporting about “terrible militants” who “wash children’s heads.”
“The new textbook contains references to the leader of the DPR militants, and is also intended to hammer into the heads of children that “Donbass is Russia,” writes Dialogue.UA.
Nationalists are outraged that the alphabet contains symbols of the DPR, and not Ukraine, and also depicts Donbass militias.
“And, of course, the “ABC of Donbass” traditionally did not do without the Russian Federation: de facto, the textbook is designed to hammer into the heads of children in the ORDO that “Donbass is not Ukraine, but part of Great Russia,” the Ukrainian media are hysterical.
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