Twisted Putin orders pre-school children to be taught military skills as he gears Russia up for decades of war
TWISTED Vladimir Putin has ordered pre-school children to be taught military skills as he gears Russia up for decades of more war.
Kids as young as four are “role playing” battle scenarios — with boys in military uniforms and girls dressed as nurses.
They will later go on to face mandatory training in tactics, weapons skills, drone piloting, applying field dressings and nuclear and biological protection at secondary school.
In a recent pro-war rally to raise funds for Putin’s forces invading Ukraine the “baby troops” marched in the military uniforms of the FSB security service’s border guards.
Their badges read “cadet” and their names were displayed as they would on the uniforms of adult soldiers.
The exercise highlights the alarming lurch to militarisation in Russia.
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Pictures from an event at Southwestern State University in Kursk show army veterans being used to teach the tots how to shoot guns and handle cartridges — with some having the weapons pointed at them.
A report on Russia’s Telegram channel said: “The mobilisation of nursery school children has begun.”
In Stavropol region, a sinister video shows pre-school youngsters in army fatigues and naval uniforms.
The four and five-year-olds in Beshpagir village are being taught to parade in their schools holding guns.
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Russia’s Ministry of Education announced last week that mandatory training will be given to children in grades 5-11, secondary school age in Russia.
They will undergo basic military training developed jointly by the country’s ministries of Defence and Education.
The chilling indoctrination will include tuition from veterans who have fought in Ukraine.
Classes in first aid will be replaced by a new subject titled: “Security and the defence of the Motherland.”
Defence expert Mikhail Borodin said a program of extracurricular activities covers practical military exercises and military-sports games.
Russian schoolboys will focus on fighting skills while girls will be steered towards first aid.
Parents have blasted the militarisation online.
Russian child psychologist Elena Kuznetsova said: “This is romanticising and decorating the worst thing in our lives — war.”
