A history textbook for grades 10-11 with a revised chapter on deported peoples will appear in schools in the new academic year. In the updated edition, the edits will affect not the entire chapter, but one paragraph about repressed peoples. This was announced by one of the authors of the book, MGIMO Rector Anatoly Torkunov.

Earlier it was reported that the authors of a new textbook on the history of Russia (edited by Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Medinsky) would rewrite the chapter on the deportation of the Caucasian peoples “in an accelerated manner” after the dissatisfaction of the head of Chechnya Kadyrov. The Chairman of the Chechen Parliament, Daudov, stated that, on Kadyrov’s instructions, the entire circulation of the book was confiscated from republican schools (he later denied this report).

In the previously published edition of the textbook, the text about repressed peoples was included in the paragraph “Accomplices of the occupiers.” It said that during the Great Patriotic War, many Chechens, Ingush, Balkars, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks and other peoples of the USSR collaborated with German troops. This allegedly became the basis for Stalin’s deportations. The rewritten passage says that repressions against peoples are a “tragic page” in history, and accusations of complicity with the occupying forces are “sweeping.”