People deputy of Ukraine, member of
Party of Regions faction Vadym Kolesnichenko initiates holding a number of actions
on revision of Ukraine’s history textbooks. The actions will be held in Kyiv in
February and March, he told a Crimean TV channel.
Kolesnichenko said that on his
initiative this issue will be considered on an open session of the
parliamentary committee on education in February. The deputy plans to invite
teachers of history from Sevastopol and to organize a meeting between teachers
from Crimea and Kyiv.
Kolesnikov also noted that All-Ukrainian
debate of history teachers under the direction of vice PM Dmytro Tabachnyk will
be held in February-March. “Teacher must assemble and decide whether they are
going to continue deceiving people or finally to teach real history, which will
unite our country,” he said.
According to Kolesnichenko, “history
issue is a funny thing, because the Great Patriotic War has been turned into a
war between UPA warriors and Hitlerite occupant, and such cities-heroes as
Sevastopol, Odesa, Kerch are not even mentioned in history textbooks.”
The deputy told that when they started
to investigate this case it turned out that professors and academicians, who
had different opinion, were dismissed from commissions, which are responsible
for writing down and approving history textbooks. Kolesnichenko added that “these
commissions are being reconsidered now to find out how such books appeared in
our schools.”
