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From playgrounds to parade grounds: Russian schools are becoming increasingly militarized
CNN ^ | Sun September 24, 2023 | Tim Lister and Katharina Krebs

Posted on 09/24/2023 10:32:15 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Russia’s playgrounds are becoming parade grounds. At schools from the Pacific to the Black Sea, children in nursery grade don uniforms and take part in marching practice. Older kids are being taught how to dig trenches, throw grenades and shoot with real ammunition.

In schools across the country, service in the armed forces is being glorified, “voluntary companies” of teenagers are being formed and the national curriculum is being changed to emphasize defense of the motherland.

In short, Russia’s children are being prepared for war.

The militarization of Russia’s public schools has intensified since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, driven not by a spontaneous surge of patriotic feeling, but by the government in Moscow.

The investment is huge. Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov said recently that there are now about 10,000 so-called “military-patriotic” clubs in Russian schools and colleges, and a quarter-of-a-million people take part in their work.

These clubs are part of a multi-pronged effort that includes a radical overhaul of the school curriculum. There are mandatory classes on military-patriotic values; updated history books accentuate Russian military triumphs.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: children; military; russia; schools
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1 posted on 09/24/2023 10:32:15 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

I miss the days when the US had the same level of RESPECT for its military - rather than make them suffer through Drag Queen shows, as is the case now.


2 posted on 09/24/2023 10:35:14 PM PDT by BobL (I own an F150 so that I can tow my boat all day Saturday and look Manly)
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To: BobL

It might be a good thing. We need our military, yes. But not when we are using it as our cannon fodder to serve the military-industrial complex.


3 posted on 09/24/2023 10:36:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Russia is turning to child soldiers to plug its manpower shortage. Not a great look though.


4 posted on 09/24/2023 10:36:57 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

From playgrounds to parade grounds to Putin’s meat grinder.


5 posted on 09/24/2023 10:37:47 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: MinorityRepublican
Russian schools are becoming increasingly militarized

The Roman Republic had a society and a secondary school system that was highly militarized. They never lost a war and conquered the Mediterranean.

The late Roman Empire was feminist, gay-loving, and hedonistic. They split in half the Western part collapsed.

6 posted on 09/24/2023 10:43:06 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: MinorityRepublican

CNN has been militarized, by the Father of Lies. They are experts on the subject of brainwashing dupes for evil, destructive purposes. Sadly for them, the prosperous America they hate no longer exists.


7 posted on 09/24/2023 10:43:43 PM PDT by Reeses
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To: Alter Kaker

Do you honestly believe that this story implies that Russia intends to deploy minors in their armed forces?


8 posted on 09/24/2023 10:44:26 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

There’s NATO at their door vowing to destroy Russia. Have you not seen all the Ukrainian kids in their NAZI YOUTH CAMPS? The ones thst Oliver Stone filmed back then in Ukraine on Fire, are very likely all dead as they went straight into Azov. Straight into killing the Russian nationals in Ukraine. Straight into the Russian sights in 2022.

We turned Ukraine into a NAZI cess pool. This CNN propaganda piece is for fools and suckers.


9 posted on 09/24/2023 10:50:56 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Far better than what they are taught in our schools.


10 posted on 09/24/2023 10:50:57 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: MinorityRepublican

We reach our kids down to after 5 about blowjobs, homosexuality, sex changes, Marxism and race hate.


11 posted on 09/24/2023 10:53:18 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: MinorityRepublican
That's outrageous !

If Russia was a modern, progressive country, this is what they would teach in their schools.


12 posted on 09/24/2023 10:54:11 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Reverend Wright

Diversity Uber Alles.


13 posted on 09/24/2023 11:02:21 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: DesertRhino

Russia is one of the few Christian countries on earth left that is not paying millions and millions of illegal aliens money to break its border and overrun and kill and maim its own citizens on its own streets. It also doesn’t have a foreign cartel in-country earning billions of rubles by drugging Russian citizens to death.

It also has a military it commits to protecting its own borders—not someone else’s. It also has a school system that does not teach its children how to masturbate or how to change their gender. It also doesn’t have a minority population that has lived for generations on public welfare and blames the rest of the country for everything bad that happens to it.

It also has a government that doesn’t prohibit its own people from producing energy from its own natural resources and selling some of it for profit, instead of mandating
the purchase of energy it needs from countries that are its sworn enemies. It also has a female population which doesn’t march in the streets for the right to kill their own children in the womb.

It also doesn’t send billions of rubles to foreign tin pot dictators, and millions of rounds of ammunition and guided missiles and attack aircraft to foreign armies, to fight wars that do not concern the welfare of its own citizens.

Yeah. Sounds like a really, really stupid and evil and backward country, doesn’t it.


14 posted on 09/24/2023 11:26:32 PM PDT by 4Runner
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Russia is one of the few Christian countries on earth left that is not paying millions and millions of illegal aliens money to break its border and overrun and kill and maim its own citizens on its own streets. It also doesn’t have a foreign cartel in-country earning billions of rubles by drugging Russian citizens to death.

It also has a military it commits to protecting its own borders—not someone else’s. It also has a school system that does not teach its children how to masturbate or how to change their gender. It also doesn’t have a minority population that has lived for generations on public welfare and blames the rest of the country for everything bad that happens to it.

It also has a government that doesn’t prohibit its own people from producing energy from its own natural resources and selling some of it for profit, instead of mandating the purchase of energy it needs from countries that are its sworn enemies. It also has a female population which doesn’t march in the streets for the right to kill their own children in the womb.

It also doesn’t send billions of rubles to foreign tin pot dictators, and millions of rounds of ammunition and guided missiles and attack aircraft to foreign armies, to fight wars that do not concern the welfare of its own citizens.

Yeah. Sounds like a really, really stupid and evil and backward country, doesn’t it.


15 posted on 09/24/2023 11:29:42 PM PDT by 4Runner
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To: 4Runner
Russia is one of the few Christian countries on earth left.

Certainly not the Russian government. And a majority of the Russian people.

16 posted on 09/24/2023 11:35:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Perpetuating a threat of war is how dictatorships control the peasants.

or.....Paranoia as a cultural imperative.

I had lost this link among the thousand or so that I have bookmarked. Found it last night. Very long read but worth it.

Putin Poofters will hate it of course. Gives a very clear picture of who and what they are.

Save time, scroll way, way down to the heading "Neurosis of the Kremlin" But DO take the time to read it all when you can.

https://ricochet.com/1214468/finnish-intelligence-officer-explains-the-russian-mindset/

If anybody understands Muskovites, it's the Finns.

17 posted on 09/25/2023 12:10:37 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Alter Kaker
Russia is turning to child soldiers to plug its manpower shortage.

Speaking of "plugging", one has to wonder what's going on in the transgender bathrooms at the US military academies...

18 posted on 09/25/2023 12:10:49 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
My favorite part was when the Brits handed over the Cossacks to the Reds at the end of World War II.

Shows you what piles of excrement the Brits and the West in general really are.

"Perfidious Albion" wasn't just plucked from the air.

19 posted on 09/25/2023 12:16:49 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

Wasn’t our finest hour, but Stalin demanded it at Yalta, and FDR, who at that point wasn’t much brighter than Biden is today, over-ruled Churchill.


20 posted on 09/25/2023 12:53:53 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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