The underground Ukrainian partisan movement, the Center for National Resistance (CNR), called Russian plans to create a new ministry for youth policy and “patriotic” education “brainwashing.”

Russian media outlet Vedomosti reported on Moscow’s plans to create the new ministry on Tuesday, April 9.

It said that the ministry would likely be put together by Russia’s Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh) and take over some of the functions now performed by the Ministry of Education.

The ministry would likely begin its work after May 7, the date of President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration – which follows his landslide victory on March 17 – in an election largely condemned by Western nations as being predetermined.

In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual state of the nation address at the Gostiny Dvor conference centre in central Moscow on Feb. 29, 2024. (Photo by Sergey GUNEYEV / POOL / AFP)

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“The idea arose after it became clear that there is no single body responsible for patriotic education – now the Defense Ministry has some powers, the Education Ministry has some, and Rosmolodezh has some, but there is no coordinating structure,” said a source cited in the Vedomosti article as being close to the Russian presidential administration.

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According to the partisans, the Russians have placed paramilitary guards at oil depots and installed closed-circuit television cameras.

Rosmolodezh organizes “Z” patriotism festivals. “Z” is the pro-war symbol used by Russian forces to represent their westward invasion of neighboring Ukraine – though more than a few Russian political commentators have hinted that the invasion should extend beyond Ukraine’s borders.

Screenshot Russian propagandist Sergey mardan on his show, “Soloviev.Live.”

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In liberated areas, Ukrainian forces have also encountered the “Z” symbol graffitied by Russian soldiers in the homes of families that were either evacuated or whose bodies were discovered in mass graves – in a war that the Kremlin says is to “de-Nazify” Ukraine.

Marking of the Russian military “Z” in the housing of local residents. (Kozacha Lopan, Kharkiv Oblast, September 2022. Photo credit: Sashko Brynza, MediaPort via Wall Evidence)

 

The irony now, Yale University history professor Timothy Snyder told The Washington Post, is that Putin appears to be “fighting a war the way that actual Nazis did.”

According to the CNR, the Russian army is also planning to forcibly bring Ukrainian children to Moscow in May for “Keepers of History,” an event the partisans refer to as: “another propaganda forum.”

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Collaborators from each occupied region of Ukraine compiled a list of Ukrainian teenagers to be bused to the Russian capital, the CNR stated.

According to the CNR, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has been increasingly coming to boarding schools in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories and delivering “propagandistic” messages.

“The most vulnerable sections of the population of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine are easy prey for the Russian invaders,” the CNR wrote on its website Tuesday.

Photo source: website of the Ukrainian partisan movement, Center for National Resistance.

The CNR said the Kremlin has been encouraging children to enter specialized MIA educational institutions in the future – or work as police officers for occupation authorities immediately after finishing school.

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“First of all, we are talking about orphans or children deprived of parental care. It is from this category of local residents that you can ‘sculpt’ your future henchmen with impunity,” it said.

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David
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St Francis of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits: "Give me the child for the first seven years and I will show you the man." Hitler and now Putin have their own adaptions, but shows the importance of family child education to prevent indoctrination in the formative years.

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John
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Meanwhile in USA, the NY Times just reported on an pattern analysis of putinrumps' speeches and discovered that he consistently:

"The conclusions the Times drew from its analysis were:

・"He grossly distorts his opponents’ records and proposals to make them sound unreasonable."

・"He exaggerates and twists the facts to make his record sound better than it is.'

・"He relies on both well-worn and fresh claims of election rigging to suggest he can lose only if his opponents cheat."

・"He has turned his criminal cases into a rallying cry, baselessly asserting that he is being persecuted by his successor."

・"He makes unverifiable claims about what the world would have been like had he secured a second term."

・"He describes the United States as a nation in ruins."

So that is how simple, it is to brainwash a vast population of feeble minded voting aged Americans. Those incapable of thinking or even doing basic fact checks for themselves that instead devotedly believe putinrumps' lies.

TJ
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@John, speaking of brainwashed feeble minded folks have you looked in the mirror lately?

Bob Boomhauer
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@TJ, Why, does it have your face? Fkn clown.

TJ
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@Bob Boomhauer, nope, but it has your fucking face asshole, fuck you and eat some shit for dinner.

DB
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@TJ, FUCK OFF BACK TO RUSSIA PIG !!

TJ
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@DB, little DB small piece of shit fuck you.

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John
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@TJ, How do MGRA trolls propagate? Do they have moms?

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