Online English school to remove task mentioning Stalin after scandal

School's reaction to the spread of screenshots

Representatives of the online English school officially commented on the incident related to the discovery of a learning task featuring an image of Joseph Stalin on the platform. The institution confirmed that it had received information about the presence of such material and initiated its verification for subsequent removal.

«Такого контенту не має бути на нашій навчальній платформі. Уже передали інформацію відповідальній команді для перевірки та видалення» (There should be no such content on our learning platform. We have already passed the information to the responsible team for verification and removal), the school stated.

How the scandal arose

The case was reported online by a Threads user with the nickname nikita_shloss. They shared a screenshot of a practical task, under which the caption read: «Працювати так, щоб товариш Сталін дякую сказав!» (Work so that Comrade Stalin says thank you!). The author of the post expressed surprise that such material is used in the educational process.

Other users also shared their surprise and noted that this is not the first time that questionable materials have appeared on the institution's platform. Ukrainians were outraged by the very fact of such an incident in an online English school.

Details of the situation

It is known that slogans associated with the name of Stalin were used in the online English school. After the publication of evidence in the public domain, the institution's management undertook to verify the information and remove the relevant content from the platform.