In the Russian edition of the famous historian's book, the chapter about Putin’s lies and the Crimea was replaced by the Trump chapter - ForumDaily
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In the Russian edition of the famous historian’s book, the chapter on Putin’s lies and the Crimea was replaced by the Trump chapter.

On June 21, the Russian publishing house Sinbad published the book “21 Lessons for the XNUMXst Century” by the popular Israeli writer and historian Yuval Noah Harari. In his new book, Harari, as he writes in the preface, decided to focus on what is happening here and now. It is interesting that in the Russian edition of this book the chapter about Putin and Crimea was replaced with a chapter about Trump, writes “Medusa«.

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The book was published in the USA, Canada and a number of European countries in September-October 2018, and became a notable event; review it in The New York Times wrote Bill Gates.

Shortly before the publication of the Russian translation, Sinbad shared fragments of a book with several editions. Among them was "Medusa", retelling the chapter on the upbringing of children in the modern world (this was the partner material). Edition "Poster" published Fragment 17-th chapter of the book, which is called "post-truth".

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A few weeks after the 21 lesson for the XXI century was published in Russia, readers noticed discrepancies between the English and Russian versions of the book - first of all, in the post-truth chapter. So, 16 July is a LiveJournal user named de_leser noticedthat, in the English version, the author cites Vladimir Putin’s statements on the situation in Crimea in 2014 as an example of fake news. From the Russian version, Putin’s name and the mention of Crimea disappeared, and Donald Trump’s speeches were an example of fake news. 20 July about it wrote on facebook Ukrainian user Andrei Chernikov, and July 21 - Russian publisher, critic and translator Dmitry Kuzmin. They published screenshots of the Russian and English versions of the Harari book.

What is written in the Russian version of the "21 lesson for the XXI century"

In the version released by Sinbad, the chapter “Post-Truth” begins with a discussion of how people are convinced: modern life is full of lies and fiction. “So, according to the calculations of The Washington Post, in the time since the inauguration, President Trump made more than 6000 false public statements,” the text says. - In a speech delivered in May 2018, 98’s 76% factual allegations from XNUMX were erroneous, misleading or unfounded. In response, Trump and his supporters invariably call journalists from The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN and other media "liars" and accuse them of spreading "fake news" in order to discredit Trump's presidency. "

But, according to the Russian text of Harari, the hysteria around the fake news is exaggerated: “In reality, she plays into the hands of tyrants and dictators. If people don’t want to believe anything, because “all news is fake,” free and open public discussion becomes impossible. Therefore, we must remind ourselves that today our situation is no worse than it was before. ”

What is written in versions of the book in other languages?

The English version of the post-truth chapter coincides with the Russian-language only with the first sentence: “Today we are constantly told that we are living in a new, frightening era of post-truth, surrounded by lies and fiction.” Further, as an example of the fake news, Harari cites a completely different story - about how Vladimir Putin publicly denied the presence in the Crimea of ​​the Russian military in February 2014 of the year.

“The Russian government and President Putin personally repeatedly denied that these were Russian troops, and described them as spontaneously created“ self-defense groups ”that could buy uniforms in local stores. When they came out with this rather absurd statement, Putin and his assistants knew very well that they were lying, ”Harari wrote. Fragments of this chapter cited publications. OPEN Magazine и The Guardian.

Here, the author argues that "many Russian nationalists" consider the idea that "Ukrainians are a separate nation from Russia" a lie. And the Ukrainian nationalists, in turn, consider the self-proclaimed DNR and LNR to be “fake countries”.

Medusa compared the English version of the post-truth chapter with the 21 lesson for the XXI century editions in German and French, as well as Hebrew. They all coincide almost word for word with each other.

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In the Russian edition, not only the post-truth chapter has undergone corrections.

Ukrainian blogger Andrey Chernikov found another fragment of the book “21 lesson for the 21st century” edited in the Russian edition. In the 11 chapter entitled “War” in the sub-chapter “A look from the Kremlin”, the annexation of Crimea to Russia is called “the only successful invasion of the 21st century undertaken by a great power”. The author writes that Russia itself "does not consider the annexation of Crimea as an invasion of a foreign country," and notes that Russian troops "practically met no resistance either from the local population or from the Ukrainian army."

In the Ukrainian, English, German and French versions there is no remark that Russia does not consider the annexation of Crimea as an invasion of a foreign country. But it says that Russia "settled fear in the hearts of its neighbors." And the success of the "conquest" is due to coincidence - neither the local population nor the Ukrainian army offered resistance, and other countries of the world did not interfere in what was happening.

Yuval Harari said he agreed to edit in the Russian edition

Medusa sent questions to Sinbad about why the Russian version of the 21 lesson for the 21st century differs from publications in other languages ​​and whether these changes were agreed with the writer. A representative of the publishing house Anastasia Khanina promised to answer them after Sinbad communicated "with the Harari office."

On the same day, the writer's statement about edits in the Russian version of the book опубликовал site NEWSru.co.il. “My goal is for the book’s main ideas about the dangers of dictatorship, extremism and intolerance to reach the widest possible audience,” Harari said in a statement. - Including the audience living in countries with non-democratic regime. Some examples in this book may alienate this audience or lead to censorship by a particular regime. For this reason, I occasionally admit the adaptation of books and approve changes in certain examples - but never the basic thoughts of the work. ”

As stressed by NEWSru.co.il, representatives of Harari did not answer the question of who is the author of fragments of the Russian version of the text, which do not coincide with the original. However, the post-truth Russian-language fragment is almost identical to the beginning of Harari’s column, which he had in December 2018 опубликовал in the section “Opinions” on the popular Israeli website Ynet (this is the site of the newspaper Yediot Ahronot, one of the largest and most influential in the country). However, in this column, Harari also mentions Russia, calling the power “tyrannical” in it and recalling the accusations of spreading “false news all over the world” that is being addressed to her. These fragments were not included in the book.

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