REN TV will tell you how much secondary and higher education cost in the USSR

In 1919, the USSR began an unprecedented program to eliminate illiteracy. Any citizen from 8 to 50 years old could take educational courses, said REN TV Deputy Director of the Center for Regional Cooperation at Moscow State Pedagogical University, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor Sergei Zasorin. According to him, criteria for mastering literacy have been determined.

“The criteria for mastering literacy were determined: the ability to read, write, perform basic arithmetic operations, perceive diagrams. Labor service for the transmission of literacy was mandatory. It applied to the entire literate population of the country, which could not evade fulfilling its civic duty.”noted the historian.

The state tried to create all the conditions for learning, butOThe majority of the population was reluctant to become literate. Why didn’t Soviet citizens want to study? How were they motivated to take educational courses? What was the punishment for absenteeism? Why did you use berries and beets during training? And how much did education cost in the USSR? Details about this and much more are in the “Unknown History” program with Boris Ryzhov. Watch it on Sunday, June 2, at 13:00 on REN TV.