{"id":32883,"date":"2025-06-02T10:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T07:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=32883"},"modified":"2025-06-02T11:27:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:27:53","slug":"smo-in-the-school-schedule-russia-is-preparing-a-new-generation-of-invaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/smo-in-the-school-schedule-russia-is-preparing-a-new-generation-of-invaders\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;smo&#8221; in the school schedule: russia is preparing a new generation of invaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russians want to make regular &#8220;meetings of high school students with heroes of &#8216;smo'&#8221; mandatory for all schools. This initiative was proposed in the state duma of russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f russian authorities view participants in the war against Ukraine as &#8220;living examples for the correct future life path&#8221; of children. These meetings are to be held as part of the propaganda lessons called &#8220;conversations about important matters,&#8221; which the kremlin uses as one of the tools for promoting &#8220;smo&#8221; among schoolchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, kremlin has been investing heavily in the militarization of youth, using so-called &#8220;smo veterans&#8221; for this purpose. These &#8220;heroes&#8221; are often criminals and war criminals.<\/p>\n<p>Despite claims of striving for peace, russia is actually intensifying the propaganda of war and hatred towards Ukraine and Ukrainians, especially among children, whom kremlin sees as a resource for future wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russians want to make regular &#8220;meetings of high school students with heroes of &#8216;smo&#8217;&#8221; mandatory for all schools. This initiative was proposed in the state duma of russia. \u25ab\ufe0f russian authorities view participants in the war against Ukraine as &#8220;living examples for the correct future life path&#8221; of children. These meetings are to be held&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32884,"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":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32883","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\/32883","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=32883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}