From the MT:
“Russian National Guard Takes
Over Siberian Schoolkids’ Education”
Russia’s National Guard has taken
over teaching duties at a fifth-grade class in the Siberian city of Irkutsk
this week. Officer Alexei Volk, wearing a military uniform, assumed homeroom
teaching duties over the class of 12 girls and 20 boys on the first day of
school. “Primarily, we will instill
patriotic upbringing and a positive view of people in uniforms,” Volk told local
television as he stood in front of the classroom’s chalkboard. Tuesday’s
classes began with a “lesson in courage,” with the kids attending a weapons
exhibition at the Irkutsk anti-riot police office, the National Guard’s
regional branch said. “I want to know how to strip and assemble weapons,” one
of the schoolchildren told local television. “I also want to learn more about
grenades.” The militarization of young Russians has sparked heated debates in
the past several years, with President Vladimir Putin’s establishment of the
Youth Army in late 2015 drawing comparisons to the Hitler Youth. Security
officials announced this year that delinquent youngsters would be sent to
military-patriotic reeducation camps. The Defense Ministry reportedly plans to
educate high-schoolers at weeklong camps each year at its sprawling $350
million military-themed park outside Moscow once construction is completed. The
National Guard is a powerful defense force that Putin founded in 2016 to take
over the functions of riot police and better combat terrorism and protect
public order. Critics say that the force was designed to target anti-government
protesters.
^ It would be one thing if it was
the Russian Military itself that was doing this, but it is the Russian National
Guard -which was created by Putin to protect himself from a coup or revolution.
This is a clear move to brain-wash children at a young age (the same way Hitler
did with the Hitler Youth and the Soviets did with the Pioneers) towards a
militant and pro-Government stance. I wonder if they use the same tactics as
the previous youth groups like promoting children to spy and inform on their
parents and go blindly into battle for the Motherland. Putin has used many of
the same tactics in the past as the Soviets did which isn’t the smartest thing
to do since we all know what happened to the Soviet Union – it collapsed. I
would rather use the tactics of a country that is still around. I wonder how
long it will take Putin and his National Guard to turn all the children in
Russia into his mini-robots willing to fight and die for him. Talk about a bad
cult of personality (again something that has happened in Russia’s past and
should not be repeated.) ^
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