The collaboration during the great patriotic war: problems of coverage in school textbooks

The article deals with the reflection of the problems of collaboration during the great Patriotic war in school teaching. The author analyzed the coverage in the textbooks of questions of collaborationist movement and cooperation with the invaders in light of the requirements of the latest regulating documents: Federal state educational standard and Historical and cultural standard. In the information war, falsification of events, the polarity in the evaluation of certain events of the war a well-planned strategy of the authors of school history textbooks coverage of the controversial events of the war is of particular importance. Having conducted the content analysis of the latest school history textbooks, the author determined that the problem of collaboration is not allocated in the special section, included in the theme, which represented the company in the years of the war. Authors of school manuals in a single definition of collaboration and its manifestations: political, economic, military. The article also identifies the reasons of cooperation with the occupiers, in textbooks dedicated involuntary and voluntary collaboration. As reasons for complicity are referred to as resentment against the Soviet regime, the effectiveness of German propaganda, fear of starvation and concentration camps. Another analyzed an aspect of the article - the forms of cooperation with the occupiers, which the author has grouped the following way: the Russian combat formation and collaboration of residents of the occupied territories. In most school textbooks reflected the activity of the Russian Liberation army of General Vlasov. Correct consideration of the discussion pages of the great Patriotic war in school textbooks contributes, in the opinion of the author, objective review of the causes, experience and lessons of the war of 1941-1945, and also avoid the aggressive wave of falsifications and perversions of its history.