Summer with a gun

Children's summer vacation is increasingly giving way to initial military training

* "The enemy dug in the forest ..."

• "We launched an UAV ..."

• “We guarded the border. We searched for violators, got acquainted with the means of tracking ... "

• "They carried the wounded from the minefield ..."

• "I had to search for saboteurs ..."

• "I quickly collect and disassemble the AK-74 ..."

Just imagine that this is not messages from the Z-Venkor telegram channel, but essays on the topic "How I spent the summer." And there is no exaggeration: this is exactly what hundreds of thousands of Russian boys and girls did last summer.

The past summer is not the first and not the last, when the most popular way to spend the holidays for schoolchildren is military games: throwing knives, marching, hand-to-hand combat, shooting on targets, assembly-disassembly of the Kalashnikov assault rifle and even parachute jumping (however, this is from the age of 14). Every year, these classes are increasingly replacing the once popular language, scientific, creative, and tourist camps.

Assault and onslaught

The tone is given, of course, state military-patriotic projects for children. They have a huge financing, and the administrative resource, and branches are created throughout the country. The most extensive program is at Unarmia.

There are military-patriotic training camps , and military-sports games , and the rally of patriotic associations and unarme detachments, and interregional training camps of Russia, and specialized camps of the Unarmia, and Unarmean Games in Orlenka , and a shift at Artek .

One boss, by the way, considered Unarmia so useful for young people that he even proposed to write migrant children without fail for accelerated integration - let them learn to patriotism, and at the same time the Russian language. Such an amazing initiative was made on August 26 by the vice-governor and Minister of Regional Policy of the Novosibirsk Region Andrei Klyuzov. Kirill Kabanov, a member of the Human Rights Council, has already called Klyuzov “professional actual”, but not because the forced entry in the “Unarmia” violates the human rights, as one might think, but because “Unarmia” is not a place of correction and punishment ”, and in general - these are not free courses of the Russian language. (Interesting is the interpretation of “Integration” and “Learning to Patriotism” as “Corrections and Punishment”.)

The “Movement of the First” has been going on “Zarnitsa 2.0” since February: first, teams of ten people (commander, political instructor, several attack aircraft, a medic, the UAV operator, the sapper, the topographer and the military person are gathered; some teams are limited to the commander and attack aircraft), then participate in the qualifying stage, then in the municipal, regional and so on; In September there will be a final.

An equally large-scale military-sports game was held by the Ministry of Defense.

According to the ministry, the game, according to the ministry, was attended by more than 140 thousand teenagers from all over the country: they cleared the area, shot, drove drones and helped the wounded.

Cultural rest

The Russian military-historical society proposed their summer entertainments: in the framework of the national project “Culture”, it organized in five subjects of the Country of Heroes camps. Participation in the work of the camps is free, but competitive, according to the portfolio. There are different directions - “Victory Volunteers” (they are engaged in the preparation of mass actions for Victory Day), “Keepers of History” (this is for search detachments and creators of museum expositions), “Media Victory” (Creation of Patriotic Media Projects ”) and“ Defenders ”(Project participants are building a military base model, some of it are stormed, others protect it). But whatever the participants in this cultural project are engaged, they guarantee that "each participant in the camp will acquire self -defense skills without weapons, fire training and throwing knives, and will also get the opportunity to get acquainted with the technique of passing the TRP stands, parachute jumps and high -altitude training." Children dig trenches , meet with their participants, shoot clips for patriotic songs.

Career guidance from the FSIN

In the Ulyanovsk region, at the change of “Heroes” in the Jam camp, the local special forces of the FSIN (special forces squad “flurry”) showed children as part of career guidance events, how to suppress riots. The fighters demonstrated their hands broken by violators, gave the children to measure body armor, hold shields and rubber batons. Now the news about this “career guidance event” has been deleted from the Page of the Federal Penitentiary Service on VKontakte and from the site of the “Heroes of Heroes” .

However, the visits of a variety of power structures to children's camps, especially military-patriotic, with stories about their hard work-this summer is common. Then inspectors for minors, dog handlers and forensics from the Ministry of Internal Affairs , then the Russian Guard .

By the way, what do they do in the summer with adolescents who are on preventive accounting in the inspection for minors? Right! They are taken out in the summer to the military-patriotic camp and taught them to handle weapons . In life is useful.

Tank skating

If someone did not have a letter for portfolio to get to free camps at the state expense, it was quite possible to get a military-patriotic camp for parental money. Fortunately, the choice is huge: if you look at the sites dedicated to children's rest, it is easy to find at least one and a half hundred military-patriotic camps across the country: “Special Forces-Children”, “Rusichi”, “Sea Kitty”, “Thunderstorm”, “I want to become a paratrooper”, “Punch-stamp”, “Hall of intelligence” ... Some offer hand-to-hand combat, others-others-the condition of the training of training The scout, the third promise at the end of the shift the tank skating, the fourth calls to the courses of UAV operators. They take children from seven to eight years to these camps.

Children shoot a pistol, disarm terrorists, disassemble the machine guns and make march-however, in an incomplete combat calculation.

One of these camps, “special forces - children” in the Vladimir region, was closed this year. The camp program included teaching children (from 8 years old) the language of gestures of special forces, fire training and survival skills in the forest.

But the reason for the closing of the camp was the lack of necessary documents and medical care. Well, the lack of information about pedagogical education and the lack of criminal record for the pedagogical staff of the camp .

The Orthodox camps are almost more militarized than the secular ones: “recruit”, “field camp”, “military outpost”, “zatyadnik”, “partisan camp”, “sovereign”, “field camp”, “young patriot”, “Fast and the Furious”, “Frontiers”, “Zhukov” ... They have a little less laser than in social camps, than in secular camps. And a little more than jigitovka, flange of a Cossack saber, fist battle, Plastun struggle and other pious classes.

"This is a military camp"

Judging by the reviews of the camps, parents and children are mostly satisfied, except for non -alternative manna porridge for breakfast, inevitable snot after water campaigns and other typical camp problems. Parents excitedly say that the children have become real men, get up early and put things in order themselves.

“On the first day, when meeting with adults [son], by inertia, he stretched out a string and wanted to give away,” one mother rejoices .

“There is a lot of physical activity,” says another. - Ratniki [senior detachment with a complex program] run a lot (they run not only in the stadium, but also in the forest, where significant height changes). The children are issued automatic machines (most often MMG [Molosogarit layout], this machine weighs about 3.6 kg). Cadets constantly carry weapons with them, run with him, sleep and eat with him too. This is a big responsibility. Of classes, TSP [Tactical and special training] prevails, but other classes also attend the classrooms. Much attention is paid to tactical medicine, UAVs and OGP [social-state training]. At the end of the shift , the warriors hand over to the token: march 10 km with machine guns, spank, hand over TSP, KSU (control and power exercises), go to the KTM [control tourist route] (night access to the forest with imitation of combat conditions). Being a warrior is very difficult, but insanely interesting! "

The third warns: “And yes, to those who go to this camp to chat, play, choose another. Do not spoil these two weeks to your and other people's children. This is a camp where they teach military affairs, survival, there is no place for a leakob, tearing classes and complaining of every corn. Here, your children are waiting for daily runs of several km, drill preparation, physical activity, crawling in mud, digging trenches and unquestioning adherence to trainers' instructions. This is a military camp. We are very advised to everyone who wants to visit an atmosphere close to the army service/survival . ”

But what about the children themselves? “I have an incredible amount of emotions and impressions from this camp, because I felt like in the army, the regime of the day, food, training, sabotage.”

“I visited the Military-Patriotic Camp“ The Intelligence Path ”. So many bright and unforgettable impressions in just two weeks ”(in the photo the author in camouflage shoots from a rifle). So the works "How I spent the summer."

One former pupil of the military-patriotic camp says : “I especially liked that we spent a lot of time in the forest: we went on campaigns, lived in tents, various shooting classes, airsoft, tactics, Belarus [hand-to-hand combat], SMB [self-defense] and much more. I liked this much more than ordinary camps ... So now I teach a drill for children in a club, I go to sergeant courses, graduated from counselors' school ... "

But even if parents and children did not choose any military patriotism at all, he himself will come to them: meetings with his participants - almost an obligatory part of the educational process in children's camps and school camps this season.

UAVs for first -graders

However, the military summer has come to an end. Now, it would seem, children will be able to focus on peaceful studies and get distracted from swearing. But it wasn’t there. Ahead of them are “talking about the important” (last year, according to my estimates, about a third of these classes was devoted to one or another military operations - either today's or memorable dates of the past war). They are waiting for a meeting with their participants. They are waiting for a new course "Fundamentals of the Safety and Protection of the Motherland." And new amazing adult initiatives.

For example, on August 19, a delegation of veterans from Togliatti visited Syzran. One of the guests, Viktor Bodrov, a large father, said that he opened in Togliatti the center of initial military training “Avangard” : “The enemy is already entering our territory and therefore we decided to revive in our center of the NVP literally for children from the 1st grade. We have specialists in UAVs, assault training, tactical medicine. We will teach children all this. ”

State Duma deputy, chairman of the Board of the Center for the Warrior Viktor Vodolatsky supported this idea, calling it "timely and relevant for any region." “Starting from the first grade in schools, we must instill in the child a love for the small homeland and the Fatherland, knowledge of the history of the native land, the ability to come to the aid of his comrades,” he explained. “Security issues, preserving historical truth and countering the ideology of terrorism and extremism - this also needs to be done from elementary school.” All this, in his opinion, should be included in the course of the "Fundamentals of the Safety and Protection of the Motherland."

I look forward to the appearance of a textbook on countering terrorism and extremism for elementary school. And then who will catch terrorists, if not first -graders?