{"id":41221,"date":"2025-12-08T14:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=41221"},"modified":"2025-12-08T13:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:28:09","slug":"how-russia-is-rewriting-childrens-national-identity-in-tot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/usa\/how-russia-is-rewriting-childrens-national-identity-in-tot\/","title":{"rendered":"How russia Is Rewriting Children\u2019s National Identity in TOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the temporarily occupied part of Zaporizhzhia region, russia has launched another propaganda project for children called \u201cpervoistochnik\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>One of the organizers is the paramilitary children\u2019s group \u201cmovement of the first\u201d. The project includes lectures and workshops presenting topics such as \u201cpreserving historical memory\u201d and \u201cfighting the falsification of the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To give weight to the propaganda, russia invited kremlin-loyal \u201cexperts.\u201d Despite the declared goal of \u201ccombating historical falsification,\u201d these events systematically distort history.<\/p>\n<p>A notable detail: organizers stated they would discuss \u201cfamily legacy\u201d and \u201cthe place of the child\u2019s family in russian history.\u201d In practice, Ukrainian children in Zaporizhzhia are being encouraged to trace their \u201crussian history.\u201d In this way, russia seeks to impose a russian identity on children in the occupied territories.<\/p>\n<p>This event is just one example of how, after militarily seizing territory, russia occupies children\u2019s minds through pseudo-educational projects and manipulative \u201chistorical\u201d lessons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the temporarily occupied part of Zaporizhzhia region, russia has launched another propaganda project for children called \u201cpervoistochnik\u201d. One of the organizers is the paramilitary children\u2019s group \u201cmovement of the first\u201d. The project includes lectures and workshops presenting topics such as \u201cpreserving historical memory\u201d and \u201cfighting the falsification of the past.\u201d To give weight to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41222,"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":934,"footnotes":""},"categories":[934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41221","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=41221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}