Moldova’s news history book ignores, distorts historical events
The Moldovan Historians Association has voiced strong indignation over the instructions issued recently by the Ministry of Education and Youth Affairs concerning the teaching of the "Universal History" discipline at Moldovan educational institutions in the 2009-2010 academic year.
Association Chairman Sergiu Musteata told a news conference at Infotag on Tuesday that the ministry's recommendations are highly biased, "and the ministry seems to be seeking to prove that the statehood of the Republic of Moldova has existed yet since times immemorial. For instance, the ministry speaks of Moldova's existence nearly since the Paleolithic epoch as a separate archeological province. This is wrong in principle!"
Association member Igor Paladi underscored that the ministry has recommended for teaching a long list of topics and historic events, but, amazingly, this list does not contain even a mention of some events that were really crucial for the history of Moldova.
"For instance, the ministry did not include in the list such an epochal event as the Great Unification [of Bessarabia with Romania] in 1918. And the teaching program of the 1924-1991 period contains no mention of such essential topics as mass-scale deportations waged by the Stalinist regime, the fatal famine of the 1940s, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and systematic and continuous attempts by the Soviet regime to distort our national identity", Paladi said.
The Association is convinced that the ministry's recommendations are aimed at rehabilitation of the Soviet period's image in the public's eyes.
The historians also blamed the Ministry of Education for the atrocious grammatical mistakes its recommendations abound in. They wondered, "If even education bosses have such an awful command of the official language - their mother tongue, how can they stand up as experts in such a sensitive matter as history?"
Background: The Communist Government introduced the Universal History into curriculums in 2006 - instead of the History of the Romanians. That caused the Association's vociferous protests. Its members claimed that certain pages in the history of Moldova were distorted or completely omitted. The Association even organized several demonstrations of protest then.
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