OREANDA-NEWS Adviser to the President of Russia Vladimir Medinsky in an interview with the RBC TV channel said that as Minister of Culture he proposed to limit the textbook of the country's modern history to 1999 — the election of President Vladimir Putin. According to him, then he was not supported by the scientific community.

"I just thought that it was necessary to put an end to this (in 1999. — RBC). No, the scientists said: no, from the point of view of science, it is more correct to go until yesterday, because everything that happened today and ended is already part of the historical space. So let it be in the Recent History section. Therefore, of course, it will be, and everything that has time to get into the textbook will be in it," Medinsky said.

According to the presidential aide, he now realized that he was wrong when he saw how history was being used for political purposes. According to Medinsky, now students need to explain why the special operation was inevitable. In an interview, he recalled Ukrainization under the Bolsheviks, collaboration in Western Ukraine during the Great Patriotic War, the separation of Ukraine into an independent state "despite the fact that no legal procedure required by the legislation of the USSR was carried out."

According to Medinsky, Ukraine is now constructing a fantasy parallel reality, engaged in historical reprogramming. "This is a historical fantasy. Muscovites are Hobbits. And they are elves. This is from the same series. It has nothing to do with science," he said.