{"id":50717,"date":"2026-09-02T09:03:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=50717"},"modified":"2026-09-01T16:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:06:35","slug":"the-kremlin-has-turned-kindergartens-into-propaganda-hubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/results\/rf-en\/the-kremlin-has-turned-kindergartens-into-propaganda-hubs\/","title":{"rendered":"The kremlin has turned kindergartens into propaganda hubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In russia and the temporarily occupied territories, children are being exposed to kremlin propaganda from the youngest possible age.<\/p>\n<p>From 1 September 2026, kindergartens across russia and in the TOT have introduced so-called \u00abgood games\u00bb \u2014 an analogue of \u00abtalks about important things\u00bb used in schools. According to teaching materials for kindergarten educators, children as young as five are expected to have a conversation about occupied Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>Kindergarten children will be told about Crimea as a \u00abhistoric part of russia that has returned home\u00bb. The youngest groups will be taught about Crimea as a beautiful place to visit for holidays. For children aged 5\u20136, educators are already promoting the Crimean Bridge as a \u00absymbol of strength and unity\u00bb, while 6\u20137-year-olds will be told about the occupation of the peninsula as the \u00abrestoration of historical justice\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>This is a clear example of how russia\u2019s system of total ideological indoctrination works. Children are subjected to propaganda as soon as they first enter the education system \u2014 starting in kindergarten. This is classic totalitarianism, in which the state seeks to completely control people\u2019s minds from the earliest years of their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In russia and the temporarily occupied territories, children are being exposed to kremlin propaganda from the youngest possible age. From 1 September 2026, kindergartens across russia and in the TOT have introduced so-called \u00abgood games\u00bb \u2014 an analogue of \u00abtalks about important things\u00bb used in schools. According to teaching materials for kindergarten educators, children as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50718,"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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50717","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\/50717","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=50717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50721,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50717\/revisions\/50721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}