Establish total control over youth?

From June 5 to June 7, 2006, a number of seminars on the activities of youth informal associations were held in the Samara region, in which specialists and heads of institutions in the field of youth policy, education and culture took part. An article by Yevgeny Nozhnitsa, published on the 63.Ru website, is devoted to this event.

In the Samara region, informal youth associations are generally defined in a non-trivial way , referring to them parties that are disloyal to the existing government, and religious associations, and subcultures. The past event was no exception.

Representatives of power structures, in particular the FSB, spoke to the participants of the seminars and presented a "black list" of organizations that have a destructive effect on a person's personality. First of all, it is, of course, the NBP. However, Mormons, Hare Krishnas, Satanists and other adherents of the "wrong" ideologies are also such. "They cultivate pro-Western prototypes in a person, repatriotize young people and thereby damage the state and the socio-economic function of a particular person ," the FSB experts believe.

Naturally, Muslim organizations are also "harmful", all striving to seize power and establish an " "independent Muslim republic judged according to the laws of the Islamic Caliphate .

Representatives of law enforcement agencies also exposed Western NGOs that "screen the masses of young people ... to identify the most capable children and adolescents. By providing them with decent education and the opportunity to use their abilities, abroad or locally, Western organizations, thereby, nurture agents of influence, which will work according to someone else's rules and act in their interests .

The "siloviki" who spoke also said that all "destructive" organizations (including the NBP) exist at the expense of foreign sources of funding.

"Our task is to prevent a person from falling under the influence of all this. To show that he can bring real benefits to Russia, and not spend his life posting campaign papers. That you can fight for a national idea not only by radical methods and prove yourself - by no means without throwing stones and bottles at the OMON cordon before the next election campaign. That communication can be found not only in basement headquarters and bunkers , "- the author of the article quotes the speech of the FSB representative.

"... in Russia, not only young people, but also quite old people ... it is becoming increasingly difficult for people to be loyal to the state system. ... Do the speakers really not see this? Or do they not want to see, wanting only to establish total control over any manifestation of "wrong-thinking", turning the current young generation into a generation of "vegetables"? - this is how E. Scissors ends his article.

Sources

• Scissors E. Generation of "vegetables" // 63.Ru (Samara). 2006. June 7th.