Russian schools, sounding boards for Kremlin propaganda

Vladimir Putin warned: “It is not leaders who win wars, but schoolchildren and priests. » During a televised discussion with the Russians on December 14, 2023, the head of the Kremlin addressed teachers and school principals. A year later, the presidential message entered the daily lives of schools, as well as churches. They have become sounding boards for propaganda, the rear front of the Kremlin since the launch, in February 2022, of its “special military operation” in Ukraine. From the start of the school year in September, local social networks reported numerous revealing cases.

So the students of a school in Bryansk, in the west of the country, sang in chorus “For victory, for Russia, for Donbass”, during a ceremony in the presence of the regional governor, who, in his speech, thanked the teachers for having “honored the heroic acts of all those who stand up to defend [la] homeland ». THE “hero” from the Ukrainian front welcome the students of a school in Chita, in Siberia, in the form of portraits alongside a wall fresco dotted with patriotic slogans.

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