In the recaptured Ukrainian city of Kherson, staff at a school transformed by Russian influence are trying to move on from the occupation. “They removed all of our books, and tried to rewire children's brains.”
When Russia took over a school in southern Ukraine, students wrote verses about their love for Russia and Ukrainian books were cleared from the library
Ukrainian books fill a room at Kherson’s school No. 27. The school’s deputy director says they would have been destroyed had the city not been recaptured.Dec. 16, 2022 7:00 am ETabandoned this city in southern Ukraine last month, she found textbooks on Russian history and literature, published in Moscow, lying on teachers’ desks.
The Russian alphabet was pinned to blackboards in classrooms where Russian wasn’t previously taught. Students’ notebooks were full of poems extolling Russia’s virtues.
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