Hundreds of teachers will be sent from Russia to Moscow-controlled areas in Ukraine to provide ” correct ” education for students. The teachers will enter service at the beginning of the new school year and Moscow has promised them a salary of over $ 2,900 a month against an average of about $ 550. The message issued by Moscow, classified as “urgent”, speaks of “teachers needed for the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions for the summer period”, with a salary of “8,600 rubles a day. The work is to prepare the schools for the new school year. ” An hour later another message addressed to ” dear teachers: is there anyone else who wants to help colleagues? These regions are safe. Please respond quickly. ” The appeals were released by the Washington Post which received them from the Alliance of Teachers, an independent group in Russia.
What attracts the teachers is the high salary, as well as the free accommodation. But “everything is fine, but these trips will not lead to anything good,” a teacher told the Washington Post on condition of anonymity. Moscow is conducting an intense Russification effort in the regions it occupied in Ukraine, changing history and also denying language. Starting from what students learn in school. On 28 June, the Russian Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov was clear: in Ukraine the education system ” must be corrected ”.
According to a list published on the website of the Dagestan Ministry of Education, and then removed, nearly 250 teachers, including 57 from the republic of southern Russia, have signed up to go to Ukraine. Among their destinations are the breakaway regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. The ministry has advertised a huge salary increase: eight thousand rubles a day, about $ 137, in addition to existing salaries.
Therefore, starting in September, Russian teachers will hold new lessons entitled ‘Dialogues on Important Things’ which will have to follow the lines of the government on what students will have to learn about the war in Ukraine and the latest events. An approach that recalls the ” politinformation ” of the Soviet Union and which, if they follow Putin’s line, will reflect the false thesis of the ” genocide ” committed by the Ukrainians ” Nazis ”.
The Kremlin’s efforts go far beyond school. It has already taken control of the Ukrainian mobile phone network and the media in Russian-dominated areas, while Moscow’s propaganda about the country’s “denazification” continues. A decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin also provides for Ukrainians to acquire Russian passports. In addition, referendums are scheduled for September in the occupied areas of Ukraine to see if they want to ” join ” Russia. Moscow has also opened offices in Kherson and Melitopol where Ukrainians can register babies “in accordance with Russian law”, obtain Russian documents and apply for welfare payments.