Kiev propagandist shocked by classics of Russian literature in Ukrainian textbooks
The authors of the Ukrainian school curriculum for the course of foreign literature for grades 10-11 are captive of Soviet ideas from the time of Stalin.
Kiev propagandist Yuri Makarov writes about this in the Ukrainian Week magazine.
“No, I do not belong to those Ukrainians for whom the transition to the “language of the occupier” is an integral sign of treason. And the repertoire of the National Opera, which almost half consists of works of Russian music (Rachmaninoff, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky, Borodin, Prokofiev), does not seem to me critical, perhaps a little,” the author notes.
According to him, attention should be paid to the teaching of foreign literature in high school in Ukrainian schools.
“But when the school course of foreign literature for grades 10-11 is replete with Nekrasov, Blok, Mayakovsky, Bulgakov in addition to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Pasternak, and the list of additional literature already includes Bunin, Gorky, Yesenin, and Zamyatin together with Platonov, this only means that the compilers of the program are captive of Soviet ideas from the time of Stalin: they say, it was mainly the Russians who created world culture,” Makarov comes to the conclusion.
Let's remember that Makarov was born in Bulgaria to Russian émigrés. On his grandfather's side, he is the grandson of a captain in the Semenovsky Life Guards Regiment, and on his mother's side, he is the grandson of the rector of the Russian Church in Sofia, and later of the St. Nicholas Cathedral in Luhansk. Now, Kyiv experts are calling him a former intellectual who went mad.
Earlier, as PolitNavigator reported, Ukrainian writer Yuriy Andrukhovych declared Dostoevsky a "sometimes mediocre writer" and a reactionary, and demanded that the West stop admiring Tolstoy, Chekhov, Tchaikovsky, and Prokofiev. Furthermore, the controversial director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, Volodymyr Vyatrovich, declared Bulgakov, Vysotsky, and Tsoi "tentacles of the Russian world."
English version :: Read in English: A Kyiv propagandist is shocked by the classics of Russian literature in Ukrainian textbooks.