NEXTA
Russia is preparing young kamikazes On Monday, Russian schools will hold a new lesson from the “Conversations About Important Things” cycle. Its grandiose title: “Russia — a nation of victors.” During the lesson, children are taught that a “hero is someone who chooses to die rather than surrender.” This idea is explicitly written in the teaching materials and presented as normal, exemplary behavior. High-school students will additionally be shown a fragment of Nikita Mikhalkov’s program “Besogon,” where he contrasts Russian soldiers with heroes of popular culture. It is no surprise that children in Russia are viewed as cannon fodder from an early age and fed the idea of an “honorable death” for the tsar. Human life in Russia is worth less than a bottle of vodka. The Third Reich, Hamas, and North Korea would applaud.