Ministry of Ukraine will refuse the notion of " Great Patriotic war "
Minister of education and science of Ukraine Serhiy Kvit, appointed after the February coup d'etat, supports the idea of replacing the concept of " Great Patriotic war " in the new history textbooks for the term " Second world war ".
With the proposal of withdrawal of textbooks on the history of Ukraine of the term " Great Patriotic war " had been Director of the Ukrainian Institute of national remembrance Vladimir viatrovych.
" I personally support This, because the whole world sees It as a tragedy - the Second world war. For Ukraine, It was not the Great Patriotic war, Ukraine was the victim of infighting totalitarian countries ", - said the head of the Ministry of education reporters on Wednesday.
in his vision, in the future when you print a new history textbooks should abandon the application of the notion of the " Great Patriotic war "." of course, those books are, they are. The story is about other books, new. This is a matter for historians, It is not a question of what one official was ordered not to mention (the term - as amended), and This is the question that is asked historians, will contests organized, then there will be textbooks, " he added Kvit.
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