Many people believe that this is just a case caused by the influence of some people with ulterior motives, but in fact, the origin of poisonous textbooks is far more complex than ordinary people imagine.
【Poison Textbook Case】
Poison textbooks are a typical means of political propaganda warfare, and their content and topics are selected through individuals and ordinary organizations, which do not have this ability, and behind the poisoned textbooks is often the operation of an entire country's intelligence agencies, and its energy and harm are quite astonishing.
The ideological high ground cannot be lost
In any country, the political ideology of the whole people as much as possible is the basis for social stability, especially in socialist countries.
As an important tool to help children establish correct three views and cognitions, textbooks must serve the whole society in their ideological form, and if there is a deviation in the thinking of textbooks, the problems caused will be quite serious.
[Textbooks are very important]
The so-called toxic textbooks are the use of textbooks to propagate erroneous ideas and distort the three views of teenagers, and in 2022, the human-taught version of the textbook, which has been used as a standard textbook by many schools, was exposed to have a number of problematic illustrations.
These illustrations don't seem to have any meaning, they are all children's images, but they obviously don't conform to the aesthetics of normal people, and adults will feel very grotesque when they see them.
Some experts said that this is a typical method of poisonous teaching materials, and adults will feel uncomfortable when they see these images, because they have formed the correct three views and aesthetics.
【Strange children's image】
However, this ideological system of teenagers is still being established, and if they regard these images as normal images of children, they will inevitably have a negative impact on their growth in the future.
Moreover, these weird-looking images do not appear by random scribbles, but are designed according to the cognitive formation of teenagers, which cannot be explained by the dereliction of duty or prank of the teaching materials of the human education version.
And China is not the first country to have a poisoned textbook incident.
[Poison teaching materials]
The same thing happened to the Soviet Union, and many historians even blamed the collapse of the Soviet Union on the head of the poisonous textbook.
This is not sensational, the Soviet Union went through a very special period, known as the Stalin period. The Soviet Union was highly rigid during this period, and the leader Stalin said that one was one, and two was two, and his preferences became the only criterion of Soviet society.
On the good side, the idea of a high degree of unity helped the USSR to complete the industrialization process and also won the Great Patriotic War, but it developed later,
【Great Patriotic War】
So immediately after Stalin's death, the new Soviet leadership began to liquidate the mistakes that arose during the Stalin period in all directions.
But at this time, the new leader Khrushchev made the mistake of overkill, and the original purpose of the reform was that Stalin was not necessarily right, but if he changed it, it became Stalin, and it must be wrong.
It seems that the wind has changed, but in fact it is only a criticism of the old Stalin, and Khrushchev and others have become the new Stalin.
【Khrushchev】
More importantly, the disappearance of the highly unified political ideology of the Soviet Union in the past has allowed the Western world to see that they have begun to wage ideological and propaganda warfare against the Soviet people, and under the pretext of easing relations between the two sides, they are actually drawing wages from the bottom of the Soviet Union.
And a very central part of this is the implementation of drug textbooks in the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union collapsed with poisoned textbooks
Khrushchev was completely unaware of the sinister intentions of the Western world, and he was so complacent about easing tensions between East and West that he gave the green light to the influx of capitalist ideas.
【Soviet Poison Textbook】
At the behest of Khrushchev, the Ministry of Culture of the Soviet Union removed the relevant content of the past few decades in the textbooks that criticized capitalism, and instead began to put into the textbooks some content that was conducive to the spread of capitalist ideas.
Some people may think that the influx of new ideas is not a bad thing, but in fact the Soviet Union has fallen into the trap of the Western world at that time, and the propaganda trend in the Soviet Union is not that capitalism is not so bad, but that communism is not as good as capitalism, and this has a very serious problem.
As a communist country, the Soviet Union was united by communist ideology, and now saying that communism is bad is tantamount to breaking the bonds that maintain the stability of the entire Soviet society.
[Capitalist ideology enters the Soviet Union]
In this way, the Soviet leadership at that time completely destroyed the spiritual beliefs that the CPSU had spent decades building, allowing hostile ideological forms to occupy the ideological high ground of Soviet society.
In the Gorbachev period, the situation intensified, and Yakovlev, then head of the Central Propaganda Department of the CPSU, was a thief, whose goal was to completely destroy the socialist system, and his coming to power basically announced the complete end of the Soviet Union.
Under Yakovlev's control, the first socialist country in the history of mankind actually began to carry out a movement to negate the socialist system in the whole society, and the believers of socialism were treated and attacked unjustly.
【Soviet Young Pioneers】
The cultural sector of the CPSU became a nest of liberals and anti-socialists, who preached capitalism even more fervently than in those capitalist countries.
At that time, Soviet textbooks did not mention Stalin at all, the Heroes of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War were slandered as mentally ill, and the soldiers who gave their lives for victory were considered madmen who did not value life.
Words related to socialism and communism have been completely banned.
【Soviet Poison Textbook】
Just imagine how Soviet teenagers who grew up reading such textbooks could still believe in socialism, the collapse of the Soviet Union was not accidental, and the poisonous textbooks destroyed this superpower.
Sources:
[1] "Toxic textbooks" must be vigilant, but the label should not be indiscriminately pasted."People's Education" magazine WeChat public account [Citation date:2023-05-25]