Russia to Distribute Rewritten History Journals to Students in Occupied Luhansk

Russia will distribute more than 100,000 journals with a rewritten history of the region to schoolchildren in the occupied territories of the Luhansk region, Ukraine. This was reported by the Luhansk Regional State Administration.

According to the report, school students will receive journals with a design developed by Russia by September 1 (Day of Knowledge and traditionally the beginning of school in Ukraine). Their pages tell about the alleged history of the region. In the journal, after the 19th century, about the times of the Russian Empire, the narrative jumps straight to 2014, the year when Russia occupied the region, "as if nothing had happened in between." This way the history of the Luhansk region as part of independent Ukraine and even as part of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) is completely absent.

At the same time, the journal lists the “main” events of the last ten years during which the region was illegally occupied by Russia. It also includes illustrations of the state symbols of Russia, as well as the pseudo-republic of LPR (Luhansk People's Republic).

To date, more than 100,000 copies of the journal have been printed, the Luhansk Regional State Administration reported.

The Luhansk Regional State Administration reported that Russians are also planning on developing the space industry in Luhansk. Although there are no relevant developments, infrastructure, university faculties, or scientists on the Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia. The Administration reports that there is already an agreement on cooperation with Roscosmos (Russian Corporation for Space Activities), which promises all this.

“Collaborators hope that the document will provide ‘a new impetus to 'the development of the space industry in the Luhansk region,’“ Luhansk Regional State Administration wrote.