Schoolchildren will be taught using Mikhalkov’s Besogon. They will be told about the Crimean Bridge as a symbol of beauty and freedom and about buying weapons at one’s own expense as an example of selflessness

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Schoolchildren will be taught using Mikhalkov’s Besogon. They will be told about the Crimean Bridge as a symbol of beauty and freedom and about buying weapons at one’s own expense as an example of selflessness

Today schools are holding the first thematic “Conversations About Important Things” lessons (on September 1 they spoke about studies in general). The lesson is devoted to Nikolai Putilov, a 19th-century industrialist and engineer involved in shipbuilding and artillery production. MO drew attention to the original program for students in grades 10-11.

◾️ They will be shown a fragment of Mikhalkov’s BesogonTV (in the video for this post). Mikhalkov invites schoolchildren to see the Crimean Bridge not only as a construction project, but also as a political symbol. He calls the bridge to annexed Ukrainian territory “a very beautiful structure” with “gigantic” economic and political significance. And he makes Putin the climax of the story: “The president of the country is sitting behind the wheel of a KamAZ and crossing the Crimean Bridge.” According to Mikhalkov, the bridge gave people a special kind of freedom: “You just get in the car and go, and you arrive in Crimea.”

◾️Mikhalkov declares the main result of the construction to be people’s unity. “This construction of a bridge, which was vitally necessary, it brings people together,” he explains, listing engineers, workers, and those who waited for the opening. The director finds another meaning as well: “It unites. And that is exactly what we lack. That is the very thing we lost during the 1990s.” Schoolchildren will be given only 2 minutes to reflect on the segment.

◾️Labor is service to the state, schoolchildren will be told. The teaching guide states directly: “Labor is not only work, but also service to one’s country.” Among the values to be formed, “service to the Fatherland and responsibility for its fate”, “the priority of the spiritual over the material,” “honesty and selflessness” are named separately.

◾️The production of weapons at one’s own expense becomes the model of such selflessness. The lesson brief says that during a period of international tension, Putilov invested 300 thousand rubles of his personal funds in the production of artillery shells, and earlier, when “the treasury was empty,” he did not refuse the task of organizing the construction of military gunboats. Another episode emphasizes that the industrialist invested practically all the money he earned into production and rented an apartment until the end of his life.

◾️As homework, children must independently hold a lesson about Putilov in their family, using materials from the project’s official website, and then report at the next lesson on how their conversation went. Teachers are also instructed to separately discuss with students “when a professional task becomes service to the country” and how “work for the common good” differs from work for personal enrichment.

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