"We do not take someone else's, but we will return our back." Z-agitation in schools and kindergartens

In many Russian schools and kindergartens, visual agitation has appeared in support of the so -called "special operation in Ukraine", children are forced to write letters to the front and participate in other propaganda events. Most parents and teachers take it for granted, but there are those who are opposed.

Kindergartens and schools throughout Russia at the end of March massively, as if on the direction from above, began to publish posts on social networks in support of the so -called "special operation" of Russia in Ukraine. In the photographs of children, they build the letter Z, posters appear on the windows of kindergartens along with St. George ribbons in support of the war with Ukraine, even publish photos of letters for soldiers - they look like those who sent war veterans during the Second World War. Most of the letters that schoolchildren massively write as a selection: a triangle with a pattern of a St. George tape with a clove or a Russian flag and on each of the letters a large Latin letter "Z" flaunts.

The fact that the administrations of kindergartens and schools are massively supported and campaigned for war, you can learn from social networks where employees of the institutions report on the events. Often, the posts in support appear with the same hashtags with zvastics - #Zavortnikameta, #Znatipobeda and #Zasovoi. Another hashtag is #EP with numbers. It is usually used by supporters of the United Russia party, and the numbers indicate the number of the region. For example, in St. Petersburg in the Porokhovye Ministry of Defense, for employees of school No. 191, they held a whole lecture, where they talked about “support for the actions of the president”, sanctions and criminal articles for fakes. It began its school principal Svetlana Babak, who part -time is a municipal deputy from United Russia. The same type of hashtags can say that entries on social networks may be written according to some instructions. This practice was used during the Duma elections in 2020 for observers, who were supposed to say that "everything is calm" in polling stations.

Russian schools report on conducting political information lessons for children, and universities collect students' audiences in support of Putin and the so -called "special operation".

"Nobody wrote here"

One of the first in Kaliningrad the letter Z in the size of two floors at the end of the building hung the leadership of the Kaliningrad Palace of Sports of Children and Youth Yunost. The building is located in the city center, it opens from a bunk bridge, opposite the main attractions of the city - the island of Kant.

At school No. 3 of Kaliningrad, fifth graders in singing lessons learn a patriotic song with new geographical boundaries: from Donetsk to the Kremlin, from Lugansk to the Kremlin, from Alaska to the Kremlin - this is my homeland.

The printed text of the song in the briefcase of her child was found by his mother Natalya.

- I accidentally saw. The child does not bother the song at all. To be honest, in addition to Moscow and Kaliningrad, he hardly calls at least a couple of Russian cities. As for me, the song is at least not very high quality from a poetic point of view. It feels like she was written on her knee, she says. - "The States know, they know NATO - we do not need someone else's land. We do not take someone else's, but we will return our back," is sung in the last piece.

Natalia suggests that the song was written after the entry of Russian troops into Ukraine.

- Children have been learning the song for a week. Most likely, they will sing on the eve of Victory Day, ”says the student’s mother.

In some Kaliningrad schools, children were offered to write an encouraging letter to the soldiers of the Russian army in Ukraine. But the leadership of educational institutions and the teachers themselves reacted differently to this. So, in one of the schools, children were taken by surprise in a literature lesson. They were invited to "express the words of gratitude and support to the military conducting a special operation in Ukraine." Some schoolchildren reacted formally to this, there were those who presented their opinion on paper. Among them are the ninth grader Victoria.

- What should I write? "I am so glad that you went to kill? Are you doing the right thing, what are you shooting in a fraternal state?" - Vika argues. - I asked what classmates wrote. They wrote what was required so that the teacher just does not swear. They simply scored such works on the Internet and wrote off. Without thinking, without investing anything in it. One generally scored synonyms for the word "heroic" and drove to write out laudatory odes.

The teacher asked the pencil to sign the work, then promising to erase the surname, says Vika. Her friend is studying at another school, a year younger, she tells that their educational institution also received an order to write a letter.

“But the teacher told us that this is at will.” If you want - write. Nobody wrote here. Moreover, in the last quarter, when there was the anniversary of joining the Crimea, we were shown a presentation, there was told about this whole story of the relationship, but then the teacher told us, you are still small to climb into politics, just look and that's it. And two weeks later, we suddenly became adults, and we were offered to write words to the soldiers, ”says the schoolgirl. The teacher, according to her, was on the side of Ukraine. - I know that the children laid their teachers who support another country. Of course, we did not. Not because we are so good, this is a good teacher. We love her. It seems to me that the children simply laid a teacher that they did not like. They did not love her and wanted to get rid of her.

The teacher of the Baltiysk school, who asked not to indicate her last name, also refused to write support letters to Russian soldiers.

- I support the "special operation", I play for my country. But I will not even give this essay to children. I do not like hypocrisy, namely this will be. Well, children are not capable of talking on such complex topics. Not all adults can. It is one thing when children wrote letters to the front during the Great Patriotic War. Then the war touched every house. The children really sincerely wanted victories, asked to take revenge on the destroyed houses, the dead relatives. And now - this is too an ambiguous topic.

"I will ask to remove all this zvastics"

In one of the kindergartens of the Vyborg district of St. Petersburg, parents found that all the walls were glued with St. George ribbons and the letter Z. True, everything began not with this, but with children's questions for mothers and dads. The unexpected question from his six -year -old son was also heard by Alexander Solomko .

- Last week, the annexation of Crimea was celebrated, and we just thought - well, now building Z will begin, as in other educational institutions of Russia. Our son knows that my wife and I have military tickets. We took him from the kindergarten directly from a walk, and he came home and asks: but they can take you to war? Can you kill you there? And right away his tears are welling. And the next day we come to the kindergarten, I look - and there are all the doors, all the windows are glued with this agitation, with these Z, such a patriotic impulse. But the parents are silent, as if nothing. Many people think that there is no need to talk about politics at all, but where without it now? She entered all spheres of our life. We decided to go to the head of the kindergarten, who turned out to be an adequate woman and said that she herself did not particularly support propaganda among children. We talked normally, without scandals, provided her with a statement that the local deputy helped me to draw up. She promised to remove propaganda for a couple of days. The next day, we did not go to the kindergarten, and yesterday we came in the morning - and there is nothing there.

“Well, as I expected, the manager turned out to be an understanding woman and responded to our request, backed up by a statement to her name. Today, not a single Z has been hanging in the kindergarten,” wrote Alexander Solomko in the MO 15 in VKontakte.

The appeal that he writes about was developed by deputy Valery Bovar. “In social networks in the last week there were many different unpleasant photographs. For example, how children in kindergarten were built in the form of letters Z, put on their knees and obviously forced to express supposedly supporting the Russian army,” the deputy writes and offers “antidote” from such pedagogical experiments in the form of a statement - to kindergarten, to school, and if it does not help, then to the prosecutor's office. A statement to the kindergarten of her son was brought by the wife of Alexander Solomko.

"I bring it to your attention that my child will not take part in measures aimed at supporting the actions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation as part of a special military operation in the sovereign state of Ukraine. Education in the Russian Federation is humanistic, is based on the priority of human life, rights and freedoms of personality, free development of the individual, education, - students have the right to freedom of conscience, information, and free expression of their own. views and beliefs. "

Parents draw the attention of pedagogical workers to the fact that they are forbidden to "use educational activities for political agitation, forced students to accept political or other beliefs." If the arguments are not heard, "in case of coercion of my child to participate, the receipt of threats in his or my address," my mother promises to contact the prosecutor's office.

Solomko still has the eldest daughter, she is an eighth grader, she studies in the cadet class. According to Alexander, in her school, propaganda blooms with magnificent color.

“But our daughter is already an adult, she understands everything, and she has the same beliefs as mine.” For her, too, this is unacceptable - all these zs on each door, all these "do not throw our own." There throughout the school all this is hung, of course. I talked with the class teacher, she said that she could not do anything: "We are a state institution, they say to us, then we do." We believe that this is not so that it has nothing to do with education, but she says: we cannot, they told us. They received an instruction from the administration. There are no such laws to obey any of their whims. But people are afraid. Although I don’t understand what they are afraid of, what are they holding on - for their small salary? And the competition in the field of education is low ... In the kindergarten, one of our statements was enough to remove all the agitation-but there was still an adequate manager there. At school, we, however, so far we only talked with the class teacher. But our son will go there on September 1, and if this continues, we, of course, will go to the director.

In the fight against propaganda in kindergarten, Alexander Solomko was helped by the deputy of the municipal district No. 15 in the Vyborg district Sergey Samusev.

- My son goes to 103 school, there is nothing like this yet. Maybe they know that I will be outraged loudly. And so - the order is going down from above that everyone should be hung with these Z, and everyone is trying - who is the first. In this hysteria, everyone is trying to declare themselves louder.

The assistant Sergei Samusev, Alexander Maksimov, three children. The son, a first-grader, is still calm, but the 14-year-old daughter who is studying in the classroom of the Ministry of Emergencies has recently started problems.

“All classes of the Ministry of Emergencies forced to gather in the assembly hall and sing the anthem of the Russian Federation, holding in the hands of a leaflet with a St. George ribbon in the form of the letter Z and the inscription“ We don’t throw our own, ”says Alexander. - And it was said that this is in support of the Russian army, which is now fighting with Ukraine. I am categorically against hostilities, and my daughter, seeing my position, probably adopted her. Moreover, she has friends from Ukraine with whom she constantly keeps contact on the Internet, some of them now had to emigrate - to Poland, to Sweden. Therefore, she does not accept military operations in the same way and refused to participate in that event. And now, in her class chats, tasks come, which they need to do again in support of the army, I even took a screenshot.

- Can't you just refuse to participate in this?

- No, they immediately begin to show the oath of cadets, although, as I understand it, the Ministry of Emergencies and the army are different structures, some rescuers, the other military. But they all interpret in their own way. I discussed the situation in a class chat in which 35 people, and only one parent supported me, and then indirectly. Everyone else attacked me like woodpeckers on Pinocchio, they approve of all this, although the question - and you will send your children there - all, of course, said nothing. So we, understanding what all this will lead to, an insignificant minority, and I will not be able to influence the situation - except to make it public. I think if the media are talking about this, they themselves want to get rid of this at school. But my daughter in any case will not participate in such provocations. Until they are poisoned in the classroom, but if she tells me something, I will come there right away and will understand, right up to the involvement of law enforcement agencies. In the kindergarten where the youngest goes, part of the posters were removed, but all this is still hanging - “za world”, “we don’t throw our own” and so on, ”continues Alexander Maximov. - And I am afraid that children will have questions - and what it is. And if at school you can somehow explain the English letter Z, then young children will have a huge number of questions-after all, we have the letter Z-in the form of a three. Immediately at the entrance to the kindergarten, they have a poster "ZA Mir", it seems to me that this is wrong. Therefore, on Monday, I will ask the head of the kindergarten to remove all this zvastics, all these "za world" and "za of their own".

The correspondent of the North. Realia sent a request to the department of the administration of the Vyborg district - on what basis in the educational institutions of the district among children political propaganda is carried out, there is no answer.

Since last week, classroom hours devoted to the justification of the war in Ukraine have been held in the schools and colleges of St. Petersburg. There are two central topics: "Anti -Russian economic sanctions and their influence on the domestic economy" and "Hero of our time Alexei Pankratov." Teachers were provided with manuals for conducting each of the classroom hours. Talking with children about sanctions is proposed by quotes of Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin. At the same time, the terms from his speeches for students are not deciphered in any way.

According to the training manual ( the photo is at the disposal of the editorial office of the SR ), the teacher should tell students about the biography of Pankratov. Moreover, instead of the word "special operation" in a fragment of the beginning of the war, another term is used. "From February 24, 2022, he took part in the invasion of Ukraine. The unit under his command fulfilled the task of covering a separate motorized rifle brigade from enemy aircraft."

"You want peace on earth, be always ready for war"

In Pskov, the military -famous social activist, paramedic Ivan Vasiliev, was worried about the military education of children. He suggested that the governor of the region Mikhail Vedernikov introduce a new compulsory subject in schools of the region - the initial military training (NVP), which in high school had all Soviet schoolchildren. According to Vasiliev’s idea, you need to teach him from 5th to 10th grade.

"Today we all see the significance of the Russian army and the veracity of the expression about the allies of our country (this is the army, fleet and aircraft). We all see that the gentlemen from NATO are. The Pskov region borders at once by the two countries of NATO, our region is the outpost of Russia on the border with NATO. It is very important that the maximum number of Russian citizens are not only ready to protect the Fatherland, but also possessed the necessary skills," Feldsher.

The education department of the Pskov region promised to study Vasiliev’s proposal.

He does not consider his proposal to be something unusual and in a conversation with the North correspondent. Realiy explained that he once replaced the NCP OBZh (the basics of life safety) today cannot cope with his tasks.

- The events that are happening now clearly show that fewer people feel safe. There is no safe and kind “world”: there are states and their interests, there are citizens who must be able to protect themselves and those values that are important to them. That "sweet patho" about the global world in which all brothers and friends have already resolved. For each person, his personal safety is priority. And in order to feel it, he must have skills that provide her, the very ones that are taught at the NVP lessons, ”says Vasiliev. - If you want peace on earth, be always ready for war. Today, any resident of the planet may be in the war zone. Since the bombing of Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya, the Coalition of NATO countries has gone far from the norms of international law. To feel safe, you need to be able to defend yourself. NVP is not about the war, this is about collective security.

The paramedic is sure that the 5th grade is a suitable time to get acquainted with military terms.

-In the 5th grade, teachers first tell children that they have matured and should be able to bear responsibility for themselves and their actions. This is the ideal period for the introduction of an object that will help the formation of a young citizen of Russia. НВП ассоциируется с армией, армия – с взрослением и оружием. Все это вместе – с ответственностью. НВП необходимо мальчикам, которые слышали о службе только по художественным фильмам и статьям в разных СМИ, но не имеют реального представления о ней. Многие парни-призывники, не зная, что такое армия, опасаются, что не справятся со срочной службой и теми трудностями, которые их ожидают. Это порождает страх и стремление "откосить" от призыва. НВП позволит будущим призывникам познать азы воинской службы, сделает ее понятной, более привлекательной и снизит вероятность желания не служить, НВП – это, в первую очередь, дисциплина воспитания личности, – рассуждает Васильев.

За минимальную военную подготовку школьников сегодня формально отвечает движение "Юнармия", однако вместо практических знаний школьники все чаще получают там задания сняться в роликах в поддержку власти.

"Дорогие наши воины, в эти тревожные дни часы вы творите историю, освобождая Украину от нацизма, и защищаете безопасность нашей стране, – говорят на видео 14–15-летние мальчишки-юнармецы из Опочки. – Также хотим передать слова благодарности бойцам из Чеченской Республики и ее главе Рамзану Ахматовичу Кадырову за выполнение их воинского долга, за неоценимую помощь и поддержку наших русских бойцов на Украине, поддержку нашего Верховного главнокомандующего Владимира Владимировича Путина в столь ответственный и тяжелый для всей страны момент".

На другом видеоролике те же дети, подглядывая в бумажку, по очереди советуют военным "не останавливаться на полпути и до конца выполнять все возложенные задачи", а в конце дружным хором кричат: "Работайте, братья".

В Тверской области власти потребовали, чтобы в школах проводили семинары под названием "Антироссийские экономические санкции и их влияние на отечественную экономику", писал "Альянс врачей". За каждое проведенное мероприятие учителя должны отчитываться. Министерство науки и высшего образования потребовало 19 апреля в вузах Петербурга провести лекции, на которых рассказать учащимся, как во время Великой Отечественной войны нацисты и "их пособники" устроили геноцид советского народа. Итогом лекций должны стать посты студентов в соцсетях – скорее всего, после массы постов от школ и детсадов мы увидим в соцсетях шквал записей от студентов и университетов.

В Карелии в Кайпинскую основную школу Суоярвского района пришла партия "Единая Россия" и вовлекла школьников в акцию #ZащитникамОтечества . Дети писали письма военнослужащим. "И хотя они не знают их лично, но благодарны очень солдатам, которые, рискуя своей жизнью, защищают Родину от врага", – утверждается на странице издания " Суоярвский вестник ".