Russian editor, BBC monitoring
Learning how to love Russia begins early in children in the eastern Ukraine.
More than 70 young people in the nursery school in Luhansk hold a long black and orange Russian military banner with a letter Z, a symbol of Russian Ukrainian invasion.
It is filled with a shameless song “I am Russian” that crosses the city and sees seven young girls jump up and down and bend in front of the Russian flag. When the music stopped, they shouted together. “I am Russian.”
In an occupational city called Antite, nursery children created trench candles and blankets for Russian soldiers.
Not only is it part of the campaign to erase the national identity of Ukraine, but also part of the campaign to turn young Ukrainians into their own country.
When teachers needed to be with children and many Ukrainian teachers fled, the Moscow government began to provide a lump sum of 2m rubles (18,500 pounds) to Russian staff who wanted to move to the occupied areas of Ukraine.
The largest and most powerful Russian organization related to children is Yunarmia.
Participating with the Russian Defense Ministry, the company accepts 8 -year -old young members. It is operated throughout Russia and is currently in the occupied area of Ukraine.
“We offer a useful basic technology if we decide to join military services to children,” said Yunarmia’s area in the Zaporizhzhia area in the southeastern Ukraine.
Bikbulatov was placed in Bashkortostan, Russia, leading the Russian Russian “Youth Guard” department.
The EU personally sanctioned Yunarmia and Bikbulatov for “Militaryization of Ukrainian children.” YunArmia is also aimed at Ukrainian children due to British sanctions that have become part of Russia’s “brainwashing” campaign.
Yunarmia is not alone. Organizations sponsored by other Russian countries moved to include “center for military and exercise training, patriotic education of young people,” the network of “first people” and “warrior”.
The group organizes competitions such as Zarnitsa games, which are rooted in the Soviet era, where Ukrainian children must demonstrate “general military literacy, knowledge of the Russian state and military history, and firearms technology.”
As children proceed through the education system, they teach Russian in Russian using textbooks that justify the Russian curriculum and war with Ukraine.
One of these books is only a Western invention that Ukraine is made to experience Russia, and claims that human civilization would have ended if Russia had not invaded Ukraine in 2022.
Lisa, attending school at OCCUPIED DONETSK, says students should participate in an event to celebrate Russia and the Soviet Union.
“When they prepared a kind of parade, I had to attend and open the train every weekend with the whole class, and we had to catch a poster. I couldn’t refuse. I was not my choice. I heard that I had to do it to graduate.”
“Whenever the lesson begins, the teacher stands us and touches our hearts and lets you listen to the Russian national anthem. She made us learn us with your heart.”
Lisa is currently living in the United States and is posting her experience of Tiktok.
Service to Russian soldiers also play a role in the doctrine campaign and visit the school to provide a so -called “courageous lesson.” They glorify their exploitation in the war and describe Ukrainian troops as violent and rude Neo Nazi.
PAVEL TROPKIN, a civil servant of the Russian Russian Party, headquartered in the occupied area of the Kherson region, said that children were able to understand their goals for “children” in Ukraine.
Outside the school, Ukrainian children will see a special organization and “special military operation” that makes Russia glorify.
The center for such a trip hosts an exhibition called “Russia -My History” and “Special Military Operation Heroes” in Melitopol in Zaporizhzhia.
Travel does not stop there.
Kremlin also started a big campaign to take Ukrainian children to Russia as part of his efforts to bring pro -Russian feelings.
Olga Rio Ville Moba Russian Culture Minister argued that more than 20,000 children who occupied Ukrainian territory were moved to Russia with only one program “4+85”. According to RosConcert, a concert agency of the Russian government, which runs the program, “we want to integrate new generations into unified Russian society.”
But Russia’s “integration” campaign is beyond doctrine.
Thousands of Ukrainian children who had taken to Russia during the three years of invasion could not come back.
According to the Ukrainian government, more than 19,000 Ukrainian children were forced to be expelled to Russia. The British government estimates that about 6,000 Ukrainian children have been transferred to Russia’s “retraining camp” network.
International humanitarian law prohibits such activities. For example, according to the 4th Geneva Convention, the occupation power cannot be “input of children in formation or organization and” pressure or propaganda aimed at voluntary enlistment of locals in the occupied area. “
In 2023, the ICC issued a arrest warrant for President Putin and partially issued an arrest warrant for illegal deportation of the child. Putin and his government refuse to prosecute.
Russia is not after its territory in the war with Ukraine. He is also trying to put a stamp on the people who live there, no matter how childhood.
