Once again, European values bypassed Latvia, where children from an early age are taught to hate Russians, calling them “dogs” and “slaves”.
So, a woman turned to the local media, who discovered an openly Nazi text in her child’s textbook, which the Ministry of Education of the Republic did not clearly embarrass.
“If you meet a Russian, then speak with him as if you are standing in a window on the second floor, and he is in the yard, head over heels in shit and dirt, because that is the difference between an Estonian and a Russian. Be courteous and coldly welcoming, sometimes even smile. Don’t hit the face, but look down on him and you will see how he is afraid of you. So the dog is afraid of even the slightest hint of disappointment in the voice of his master, and the Russians with their wide soul are even today nothing else than the slaves of the Tatars, whom they have been for centuries”, – reads the text printed in the textbook.
The journalists decided to check this information and found out that this is an excerpt from the novel “Sola” by Gunars Yanovskis. At the same time, a literature teacher Ieva Grakholsk assured that this text supposedly does not teach children Russophobia, but patriotism. “For all the years I have not read or seen anything better. In my opinion, this is the golden fund of Latvian literature”, – she said.
They commented on the situation at the Center for the content of education, recognizing that the text was indeed included in the school curriculum, but the question of studying it, like others, is decided at the school level.