How Stalin "positively blackened" the Russians in education Looking at the current frenzied propaganda of this "Russian statesman", one must remember how under Stalin, at the legislative level, the people who founded the country became second rate - including in the matter of education. Under this leader of the Soviet Union, higher and secondary education was officially paid for by the Russians, but was left free for selected national minorities. In 1940, the Council of People's Commissars published Resolution No. 1860 "On the Establishment of Tuition Fees in Senior High Schools and Universities of the Soviet Union". According to it, in schools in Moscow and Leningrad, as well as in the capitals of national republics, it was necessary to pay 200 rubles a year for secondary education, and in steel regions - 150 rubles. per year. The same fee applies to students of technical schools, pedagogical schools, etc. In universities in Moscow and Leningrad you had to pay 400 rubles a year, and in other places - 300 rubles. With such prices for education, Stalin cut off a large part of the population, especially collective farmers who worked for meager food rations ("working days") and often could not pay for the children's education even in high schools, let alone universities. But Stalin did not cut off all nations from higher education. Only 3 years later, the fact was again revealed that in the international Soviet Union all nations are equal, but some are more equal than others. On January 5, 1943, the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union issued a decree "On the exemption of Kazakh, Uyghur, Uzbek and Tatar students in the Kazakh SSR from tuition fees in grades 8-10 in high schools, secondary schools and universities and provision for students". On February 27, 1943, a similar resolution was passed by the Council of People's Commissars "On the exemption in the Uzbek SSR of Uzbek, Karakalpak, Tajik, Kyrgyz, Kazakh and local Jewish students from tuition fees in grades 8-10 in high schools and technical universities... February 27, 1943.