Chronicles of Indoctrination

Action figures of “SVO heroes,” portraits of regional governors on school notebooks, military enlistment offices as career guidance centers, and drone lessons for second graders — the state continues turning schools and kindergartens into military staging grounds.

📌 War Figurines for Kindergartens

At the “Native Toy” competition, the winners were toy sets based on real participants in the war against Ukraine — including a military paramedic, an air defense operator, and the infamous “boy Alyosha.” Putin promised to launch mass production and distribute the toys to kindergartens across the country. 

📌 Career Guidance in the Military Enlistment Office

In Moscow, 9th graders were invited to take a career aptitude test — at the local military recruitment center. Legal experts remind that minors under 17 have no legal obligations to military authorities. Any such coercion is illegal. 

📌 Portraits on Notebooks and “Childhood in a Soldier’s Cap”

In Kursk Oblast, where gubernatorial elections took place this weekend, schoolchildren were used for election propaganda: they were given rulers and notebooks featuring acting governor Alexander Khinshtein’s portrait, along with a patriotic booklet titled “Childhood in a Soldier’s Cap.”

📌 Drones from Second Grade

In Sakhalin, authorities want to introduce drone operation classes starting in Grade 2. Children will be taught how to assemble drones from modules and control them using a phone or computer. Organizers say directly: “We need personnel. And we need them in large numbers.”

📌 Remote Learning Instead of a Road

In Irkutsk Oblast, children from the villages of Krasnaya Kavaleriya and Novokievsk never made it to school — school buses got stuck in mud after heavy rains. Students were switched to remote learning. Locals say the same thing happens every year.