The International Scientific and Practical Forum “Without a Statute of Limitations” ended in Svetlogorsk. Nazi crimes against humanity: history and modernity." It is dedicated to developing a unified position against Nazism in the modern world.

It is dedicated to developing a unified position to counter Nazism in the modern world. Over 1,500 people took part in the forum: students, teachers, university administrators, representatives of public organizations and government bodies, as well as over 170 historians, archivists, investigators, prosecutors and other experts of the project.

As part of the three-day forum, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation held a seminar-meeting on the creation of a network of laboratories for studying the events of World War II and countering the falsification of history.

"The project "Without Statute of Limitations" is of particular importance for all who promote genuine values and ideals, who preserve the history of our country, resist attempts to falsify facts and distort historical truth, who defend the principles of patriotism, citizenship, service to the Fatherland, who are responsible for the future of Russia. The forum paid considerable attention to the development of the educational process in schools and higher education institutions, the creation of a holistic system of historical education, which includes emotional and educational components that reveal the nature of social, cultural and other phenomena of the world order. Preserving historical memory is a necessary condition for building the future," said Olga Petrova, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

Experts from Pskov State University, Blagoveshchensk and Ural State Pedagogical Universities, Southern and North Caucasian Federal Universities made presentations.

At the end of the seminar-meeting, six universities signed an agreement to establish a University Consortium for the Study of World War II and Counteracting the Falsification of History. The Mari State University, Blagoveshchensk and Ural State Pedagogical Universities, North Caucasian and Crimean Federal University named after V. I. Vernadsky, Moscow State Law University named after M. V. Lomonosov, and the Moscow State University of Law will develop network interaction and implement joint projects. O. E. Kutafina.

Another platform of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia within the framework of the forum was a round table devoted to the mechanisms of introducing the materials of the project "Without a Statute of Limitations" into the educational activities of universities. The participants discussed successful practices of teaching the program of the module "The Great Patriotic War: Without a Statute of Limitations" - it is aimed at the civic-patriotic and spiritual-moral education of young people.

Separately, they discussed the regional component of the program for universities of new regions and the educational and methodological complex for training students in legal specialties. Materials about Donbass, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions in World War II are aimed at forming a clear position among young people of rejection and condemnation of the ideology of Nazism and the policy of genocide, to show the relationship between the events of the Great Patriotic War and the modern geopolitical situation in the world. The program for training students in legal specialties is based on information about the post-war tribunals in Khabarovsk, Nuremberg and Tokyo.

The forum also included panel sessions, public lectures, master classes, film screenings and much more. Students from the Moscow State Linguistic University presented a performance-reconstruction "Stalingrad: the path to peace", during which they recreated Hitler's Munich speech to his comrades, scenes of commanders-in-chief's reports to Stalin, the address of Field Marshal Paulus on August 8, 1944, episodes of his capture, interrogation and the beginning of cooperation with the Soviet Union. Let us recall that the educational project "No Statute of Limitations" is aimed at preserving the memory of the Great Patriotic War among contemporaries. As part of the project, archival documents are declassified, field work is carried out, educational events and scientific conferences are held with the participation of schoolchildren and students from all regions of the country. Since 2020, three large-scale events have been held: “No Statute of Limitations: “Lessons of Nuremberg”, “Khabarovsk Trials: Historical Significance and Modern Challenges”, “No Statute of Limitations. Genocide of the Soviet People by the Nazis and Their Accomplices during the Great Patriotic War: Historical Understanding and Judicial Practice”.

Source: https://minobrnauki.gov.ru/press-center/news/nauka-i-obrazovanie/74850/