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HISTORY OF RUSSIA….American conservatives have been complaining for years about the teaching of American history to our impressionable youth. We should make our kids proud of America, not fill their heads with the Trail of Tears and Jim Crow and whatnot.

Apparently Vladimir Putin feels the same way about the teaching of modern Russian history and has endorsed a new textbook that emphasizes Russian greatness. Don’t like it? Pavel Danilin, who wrote one of the chapters, has this to say:

“You may ooze bile but you will teach the children by those books that you will be given and in the way that is needed by Russia. And as to the noble nonsense that you carry in your misshapen goateed heads, either it will be ventilated out of them or you yourself will be ventilated out of teaching…. It is impossible to let some Russophobe shit-stinker (govnyuk), or just any amoral type, teach Russian history. It is necessary to clear the filth, and if it does not work, then clear it by force.”

Sounds like a man of action. It’s nice to know that Russian pedagogy is in such good hands.

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