This is what it looks like when Vladimir Putin controls your child’s classroom

Subscribe to slatest to get insightful analysis, criticism, and advice there, delivered to your inbox every day.

On February 24, 2022, Russian tanks crossed the Ukrainian border. Six months later, on Sepriya 5, 18 million heard “discussions about important things” for the first time – a new lesson that is being introduced in all schools in the country, from the beginning to the 11^th distance.

Every Monday, for the first time, children aged 6 to 18 sit at their desks to learn about “serving the country, and why today’s soldiers are real heroes, as opposed to “real superveroes”. Since 2022, Russian school children have studied 102 such lessons.

“Discussions about important issues” are not new to the school curriculum. It is a session of the Indoctrination Regime Regime Resite Masquerading as education – a systematic attempt by the regime to re-indoctrinate a generation, using the school system as a military literature tool.

I am a Russian immigrant farmer and former political azulu. I got access to these materials through someone who is currently enrolled in a Russian school, who was able to send me the books and syllabus needed for this analysis. Pladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, and its consequences for the future of our planet, with ally in depth. I care about the future of my country’s children: I am witnessing a vicious Propaganda machine to emerge since Goebbels – and it is emerging in real time.

“Discussions on important issues” serve as a high-fat Propaganda program. Every week, thousands of Russian schools receive ready-made guides from the program’s official website. Teachers do not need to think about anything – everything is written in Moscow, including answers to specific questions and “correct” answers. The official purpose of the program sounds: “The development in children of the need for self-cultivation of such moral qualities as respectable, violent,

But it is the actual content of the courses that reflects the absolute priorities: training young minds to listen to follow Putin’s preferred version of recent history.

Take the lesson at 10^th and 11^th graders on the 80s^th Commemorating the victory, Russia’s victory over the Nazis during World War II. The guide instructs the teachers to start with an emotional explanation: “Forty. In the morning, the villages put their university credentials into the university.”

After such a setup, teachers must ask schoolchildren an important question: “What qualities are needed today by the Russian soldiers fighting against the Ukrainian Neo-Nazis in a special military operation?” Note the composition: Ukrainians are called “Neo-Nazi” A PRORE, while Russian aggression becomes “patriotism.”

The guide will directly instruct: “Our servicemen who participate in the ‘operations of special forces’ continue the great traditions of their brothers and great-grandfathers, who always rely on all of them, who brought them back when they were destroyed by the last of the Nazi ideology.”

This plan goes to great lengths to have Russia’s official invasion and annexation of the Crimean peninsula, part of Ukraine. The lesson “The Day of the Union of Crimea and Sevastopol and Russia” for high school students represents a textbook example of how history rewrites itself.

The guide requires teachers to explain that “Russian history is disproportionately connected with Crimea and Vevastopol – this is our common history, common Russian language, common culture.” The 2014 installation of the district is called nothing more than “restoration of historical justice” and “return home to home.”

Teachers must quote Putin: “In Crimea, everything is full of our common history and pride.

The rewriting of history continues to distort what happened in the post-invasion world, saying that the citizens of Crimea accepted the Russian takeover by popular vote. Children are told that the “referetum” of 2014 was an act of free will: “Citizens of Crimea and Vevistopol voted for reunification with Russia.” The fact that the “referendum” was carried out at gunpoint by the Russian military occupying the peninsula was ignored in the tracks.

The program is actively creating new stories and new language. In studies of Russian military operations in Ukraine, Ukrainian forces are often referred to as “Neo-Nazis,” the military’s special aggression becomes “military unconsciousness,”

“IZ-War Tranticent” (embedded name of the radio) (records video addresses of schoolchildren, explained the children: “A hero is a person who is ready to sacrifice himself for others.” Director Nikita Mikhalkov, in a video clip for high school students, sits against the backrop of icons and tells them that the West “asks for fictional heroes”-ket from They don’t take revenge and Iron Man playing. “Unlike other countries, Russia does not need to invent heroes. We have them, they are real. This is not ruce lee, not different people. But they are not people. And real.

On the other hand, the guides shape the children’s perception of a hostile environment. School children learned the concept of a “multipolar world,” where Russia faces an aggressive west. “Victory in the great patriotic war remains an important part of our country’s status in the world stage and creates the conditions for a united and secure country,” read the high points.

The curriculum is part of a broader, and growing, effort to incorporate ficitarism into education. Russian military personnel began to join the teaching thanks to special government programs. “Defenders of the National House” The State Fund, created by the decree of Putin in April 2023, helps “special service veterans” who receive student education. In fact, people with post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal experiences become teachers of children.

Classic Propaganda Techniques Demonstrated in Russian Classrooms. First, emotional impact precedes rational thinking. Lessons begin with vivid, emotional images – the smell of bread in the peaceful villages of the 1940s, the laughter of children, the warmth of a family. Only after this emotional “catch” is the content delivered.

Second, the false dichotomy is actively working. Children are given a choice between “US” (Russia, good, justice) and “them” (west, evil, aggression). No third option exists.
Third, “emotional” techniques are included. Positive emotions – pride, family love, admiration for heroism – are tied to images of military power and national power. Guidelines for teaching teachers specifically to awaken “feelings of patriotic pride” and “understanding the need to protect the peace and sovereignty of their country.”

The age range plays a special role. Elementary students get a simplified view of Fairy-Tale Pictures good and bad. Young people discover the complex concepts of “GEOPOLITITICS” and “Historical Justice.” The higher ranks, who will receive draft notices in a year or two, learn about the “need” of the current war and their duty to defend the country. “

Not all teachers are willing to participate in the processing of children with ideas. Reports of teacher resistance and dismissals are emerging from various regions of Russia. However, this resistance is not a plan – the indicators come down from above as a compulsion, and refusing to use them threatens the loss of work.

In addition, the system works even in the occupied territories, where the Russian authorities forcefully use “important talks in important schools” in the captured schools. Ukrainian children are forced to learn “correct” history and “correct” values.
Parents were also drawn into the control process. The guidelines assume that children will discuss lessons at home, and parental disagreements can be grounds for “prevention discussions” – Informative reports. “

Prolonged exposure to fear narratives- “enemies all around,” “The world is under attack” -Restructures Worldviews. In elementary school, critical methods of evaluating such claims become available; Lessons are taken for granted. Teachers repeat formulas about “Natu Invirclement” long before children learn to read maps.

Using the school system of military textbooks constitutes a complete violation of international laws and regulations for the protection of children. Article 29 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child states that education should aim to ‘promote respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms,’ preparing for war.

Russia has turned its schools into factories to produce future soldiers and recruits. Children do not receive education, but the processing of ideas. They were not given the tools of critical thinking, but plans were made with food made by acquiring land. Western countries accepting Russian refugees should consider the extent of the ideological processing to which Russian children have been placed. Special programs of de-orologization and critical thinking education will be needed to help these children adapt to society.

“Discussions about important issues” is a case against the child, the systematic poisoning of young cattle and the pain of war and xenophobia. And the longer it goes on, the harder it will be for Russia to return to a peaceful existence.