Russian Military Historical Society representative says new history textbook presents Stalin ‘objectively’ (rather than as a ‘tyrant’)
Mikhail Myagkov, the scientific director of the Russian Military Historical Society, said Monday that Russia’s new history textbook will provide an “objective” view of Joseph Stalin’s role in Russian history. He contrasted the book’s approach to that of past Russian history textbooks, including “the ones financed by the Soros Foundation in the 1990s.”
In the textbooks of the 1990s, according to Myagkov, Stalin “was a tyrant, a brute, and an incompetent commander who overwhelmed the enemy with corpses.” In the new book, however, the dictator is presented as someone who “clearly defended the Soviet Union’s foreign policy interests,” he said.
The Russian Military Historical Society was created by Vladimir Putin’s presidential decree in 2012. Its stated purposes include promoting the study of Russia’s military history and “countering attempts to distort it.”
