{"id":27473,"date":"2025-02-11T17:42:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=27473"},"modified":"2025-02-12T11:10:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T09:10:52","slug":"how-kremlin-prepares-russians-for-war-starting-in-kindergarten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/how-kremlin-prepares-russians-for-war-starting-in-kindergarten\/","title":{"rendered":"How Kremlin Prepares Russians for War Starting in Kindergarten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, participants in the war against Ukraine and local deputies held a so-called \u201clesson of courage\u201d in a kindergarten. They staged a propaganda event featuring a weapons exhibition\u2014including pistols, assault rifles, grenades, and even mines. Preschoolers were also allowed to play with model weapons.<\/p>\n<p>This militaristic spectacle was actively supported by the pro-government United Russia party and involved journalists.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin\u2019s war propaganda targeting children defies basic human decency. This story vividly illustrates the inhuman nature of Putin\u2019s regime, which sees children as \u201ccannon fodder\u201d from an early age and openly conditions them for future warfare.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the Center, together with Bring Kids Back UA\u2014a Ukrainian initiative launched by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2014prepared an analytical report, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/report\/analytical-report-militarization-of-ukrainian-children-in-temporarily-occupied-territories-of-ukraine\/\">Militarization of Ukrainian Children in the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine.<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, participants in the war against Ukraine and local deputies held a so-called \u201clesson of courage\u201d in a kindergarten. They staged a propaganda event featuring a weapons exhibition\u2014including pistols, assault rifles, grenades, and even mines. Preschoolers were also allowed to play with model weapons. This militaristic spectacle was actively supported&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":55,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}