The kremlin continues to revive totalitarian soviet-era practices aimed at militarizing children and youth in russia.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0fThe russian authorities plan to open a so-called \u201cDigoriya\u201d \u201cPolitical education workshop,\u201d which will effectively function as a reincarnation of the Higher komsomol school under the central committee of the soviet youth organization (VLKSM). Its primary mission will be the \u201cideological training\u201d of personnel fully controlled by the kremlin tasked with spreading propaganda among children and young people.<\/p>\n
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the russian regime has been systematically building a propaganda network aimed at reaching all russian children from preschoolers to university students actively drawing on soviet experience.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0fOne key initiative is the kremlin\u2019s development of the \u201cMovement of the first\u201d \u2014 a deeply militarized child organisation modeled after the soviet \u201cpioneers.\u201d It indoctrinates children to prepare them for wars serving the kremlin\u2019s interests.This propaganda work will be carried out by young organizers who \u201chave undergone ideological training\u201d at the \u201cDigoriya\u201d center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The kremlin continues to revive totalitarian soviet-era practices aimed at militarizing children and youth in russia. \u25ab\ufe0fThe russian authorities plan to open a so-called \u201cDigoriya\u201d \u201cPolitical education workshop,\u201d which will effectively function as a reincarnation of the Higher komsomol school under the central committee of the soviet youth organization (VLKSM). Its primary mission will be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30550,"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":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30549","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=30549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}