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UKRAINIAN WOMAN OUR ENGLISH COLUMN Difficulties of Soviet Education a ) C o n tin u o u s C h a n g in g o f th e P r o g r a m s T he program s of instruction in U SSR have been undergoing- con tinuous changes. This led to fluc tuatin g condition and reaction on the pupils. Even the order to in troduce co-education has 'been changed th ree tim es — on M ay 3, 1918, July 16, 1943, and in July, 1954. ' b) L ack o f T e a ch e rs The periodical “U chitelskaya G azeta” (T eacher’s G azette), M oscow No. 163, reports th a t the Soviet m inistry of education is receiving alarm ing advices from the schools th a t young teachers do not report a t th eir institutions. This year th e colleges in U SSR have assigned for the schools around 5,000 teachers, bu t only 2,998 reported for w ork in the schools. Im num erous schools the lessons in physics, biology, m athe m atics and literatu re had to be relinquished. This happened in Leningrad, N ovgorod, Vologda, Saratov, Pskov, in T a rta r A uto nom ous Republic, in K om i A uto nom ous Republic etc. c ) A tten d a n ce o f S c h o o ls The “Teachers G azette” M os cow, 1956, No. 38, reported that the head of the provincial d epart m ent of education of A rchangel had inform ed th at the children in th at province had not been a t tending the schools because of m aterial difficulties of th eir p ar ents. In the province oif Pskow at t'he beginning of the school year 5,300 pupils failed to attend the schools. In 18 districts of the province of Veliki L uki 2,900 pu pils failed to report. In th e Nord- va A utonom ous Republic 1,358 children rem ained out of school. d) L ack o f B u ild in g s and S c h o o l Sup p lies T here have been in the Soviet press constant com plaints about insufficiency of school buildings, cabinets and w orkshops. T he L it erary G azette of M oscow (No. 93, 1954) had com plained th at the paper used in the schools w as of the w orst kind. The daily “Radyanska U krai- na” of Kiev, carried a report th a t out of 2,100 trade schools in U k raine only 165 had their ow n p re mises while the rest w ere housed in the building's for general schools w here th erefo re there had to be tw o shifts in the attendance. e ) C hoice o f P r o fe ssio n a l A c tiv itie s The youth in UjSSR cannot freely choose their professional activities or place of w ofk. The address of K hrushchev indicates how the Soviet governm ent is settling about it. The M oscow “P ravda” of F eb ruary 20. 1958, reported th at the youth of U kraine had departed “enthusiastically” 1. 80,000 boys and girls to vir gin land's of Siberia and K azakh stan. 2. 83,000 you-ng persons to cat tle-grow ing farm s in 1956-1957. 3. 110,000 to w ork in the mines in Donbas. 4. 50,000 boys and girls to Sta- lino and D nepropetrovsk to build blast-furnaces. These figures dem onstrate th at the Soviet governm ent has been forcing the youth of U kraine to toil in the industry or on the farm s, m ostly in rem ote lands, regardless of professional calling, fam ily ties, or physical aptitude of the boys and girls. C onclusion H ow ever, the above facts and statem ents do not evince the w orst evil of the Soviet educa tional system . The w orst disaster is the indoctrination and im buing of the youth’s m ind w ith hate to w ard everything contrary to bol shevism. The Soviet doctrine is directed tow ard the plans to dom inate the whole world. The Soviet regim e is conducting its propaganda, fol lowed by action. It h as been try ing to dissem inate their inven tions th at the farm ers and w ork ers in th e free w orld live in dread ful circum stances; th at it is plan ning to destroy the USSR, and th at it is exploiting the colonial peoples. AIL this propaganda is perm eating the minds of the pu pils teaching them to hate the W estern W orld, and to get ready to struggle to “liberate” it. The Soviet propaganda of hate tends to crook th e conscience of the school children. F o r exam ple, during the w orst, com pulsory fa mine in Ukraine', th e Soviet re gim e widely advertised as a “he ro ” a perverted pupil Pavlo M o rozov, who denounced his parents for having hidden a small am ount of food to try to carry the fam ily through the fraudulent starva tion. For this act of “heroism ” the boy was rew arded while his p ar ents w ere liquidated. The story was printed in the school books to “educate” the children by de m onstrating the kind of bolshevik ‘heroism .” The hate and the urging the children to inform against their parents is the w orst poison sup plied by the Soviet schools. * The above problem s w ere discussed w ith Mrs. E. D. R oosevelt during our conference on March 18, 1958. W h en you ch a n g e y o u r address don’t fo r g e t to send te n c e n ts fo r c o s t o f p rin tin g.
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