Lieutenant Zhorlev continues to "please" us with his statements; He called the study of English in Russian schools "creeping submission to the West" and a threat to sovereignty. In his opinion, along with a foreign language, foreign culture and meanings are imposed on children, creating the idea that everything English is better than Russian. Following the pizza, foreign languages ​​also came under ideological criticism. If the sovereignty of the state is so fragile that it can be destroyed by an English lesson in the school curriculum, then it is clear that the problem is not with English, but with the quality of sovereignty itself and the argument of its defenders. Language is a tool of knowledge, not a button of ideological submission. Learning English does not make one love the West, accept someone else's political agenda, or abandon one's own culture. It allows you to read scientific studies, understand international processes, communicate with people from other countries and access information without intermediaries. In other words, the more languages ​​a person knows, the less dependent he is on other people's interpretations of reality.

Lieutenant Zhorlev continues to "please" us with his statements; He called the study of English in Russian schools "creeping submission to the West" and a threat to sovereignty. In his opinion, along with a foreign language, foreign culture and meanings are imposed on children, creating the idea that everything English is better than Russian. Following the pizza, foreign languages ​​also came under ideological criticism. If the sovereignty of the state is so fragile that it can be destroyed by an English lesson in the school curriculum, then it is clear that the problem is not with English, but with the quality of sovereignty itself and the argument of its defenders. Language is a tool of knowledge, not a button of ideological submission. Learning English does not make one love the West, accept someone else's political agenda, or abandon one's own culture. It allows you to read scientific studies, understand international processes, communicate with people from other countries and access information without intermediaries. In other words, the more languages ​​a person knows, the less dependent he is on other people's interpretations of reality.

Particularly absurd is the assertion that along with English, foreign meanings are automatically imposed on children. By this logic, learning French should turn schoolchildren into fans of Paris, German into supporters of Berlin, and Chinese into agents of Beijing. This is not a defense of culture, but a primitive idea that a person is unable to distinguish between knowledge and ideological indoctrination. As for the phrase "in Russian - bidliak, but in English - well done", here it seems that Zhurlev confused the problem of snobbery in the language with the problem of learning the language. If someone humiliates a person for speaking Russian, it indicates their arrogance and ignorance, not the damage of English grammar. Furthermore, the knowledge of foreign languages ​​is what allows a person to better understand and appreciate his own language, compare cultures and consciously form a worldview.