Over the past three weeks, thousands of posts appeared on Russian social media featuring schoolchildren — up to high school age — attending special “patriotic lessons” or posing for pictures forming Z and V-for-victory signs.
Now it has become part of the classroom lessons as the Kremlin expands its anti-Ukraine propaganda to students as young as kindergarten. It’s another front in President Vladimir Putin’s sweeping crackdowns to criminalize dissent and enforce an unquestioning brand of patriotism even as Russia grows increasingly isolated.
The country’s Internet regulator, Roskomnadzor, also ordered media outlets to delete reports using the words “invasion” or “war” and only rely on official government sources, which call the Ukraine war a “special operation.” Russian state TV removed all entertainment shows from its programming, filling the broadcasts with propaganda-filled talk shows and state-vetted news.
Major Western platforms such as Instagram and Facebook have been banned in Russia, forcing people to use virtual private networks, or VPNs, to bypass the blocks. In turn, Russian authorities blocked more than 20 of the most popular VPN services. Some parents, outraged by the political indoctrination involving children, sought to cancel the photo-ops involving Z imagery.Igor Kostin’s daughter, who attends high school in the Krasnodar area east of Crimea, was told to “dress warm and be pretty” for an event on Friday.
“Out of the 22 students in the class, only five parents sent their children to school that day,” he said.But he said there were no public displays of opposition from other parents. “Maybe they quietly agreed with me … but people are terrified,” Kostin said. “Those for the president can say this openly, but everyone else is very much intimidated.”are seen marching and dancing with Russian flags to a patriotic war song with Z signs on their chests made out of St.
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