Ignorance about Communism...
This story is from Sweden...and it is worrying that there is a reluctance to tell the horrible truth about Communism...
Ninety percent of Swedish students aged 15-20 do not know what a gulag was, and some still insist that schools should not teach about the crimes of communism. How long will the elites continue defending a failed ideology, asks Nima Sanandaji of think-tank Captus.I wonder how Canadian students would do on a test about communism....
A recent study by polling company Demoskop, commissioned by the 'Upplysning om Kommunismen' (Knowledge about Communism) association, showed that Swedish students have a skewed view of the history of communism. Few are aware of the massive loss of life caused by followers of this ideology, and 90 percent of Swedish students aged 15-20 do not even know what a gulag was.
A recent opinion piece in Biblioteksbladet magazine (a periodical for Swedish librarians) denounced the government's plan to spread knowledge to students about the horrors of communism.
In the article, two school librarians write that informing students about the crimes of communism would be wrong as it would risk making the pupils' views more right-wing.
Former foreign correspondent Kjell Albin Abrahamsson, who has spent many years reporting from the former communist countries in Europe, reacted strongly to the piece.
Writing in tabloid Expressen, Abrahamsson points out how strange it is for two librarians to be so keen to preserve students' support for socialism that they are are not willing to acknowledge the crimes of communism. He notes that a Russian government commission has admitted that the country's former communist rulers killed 32 million people.
posted by GayandRight @ 11:37 AM
1 Comments:
As usual, the last redoubt of socialism is academia, which is the natural place to go look for a job after you've finished your three to nine years of formal indoctrination. It's also the only place where you might find people who'll see some conceivable use for your non-education; after all, they provided it and found the same solution themselves when they got out of school. Maybe it's not surprising that in a country with a long history of socialist government the problem extends right down to the bloody school librarians. Being an intellectual is by no means the same thing as being intelligent.
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