The Russian authorities have sharply intensified war propaganda in schools and universities. In military-patriotic centers, "war veterans" beat children with sticks

In February this year, meetings with participants of the war in Ukraine were held in educational institutions in at least 40 regions of the country, the BBC Russian Service has calculated.

The so-called "lessons of courage" were conducted by active military personnel, mercenaries who served in the PMC "Wagner", as well as those mobilized in the fall of 2023, who were severely wounded and could not return to the front. While communicating with schoolchildren and students, many of them did not give their real names and hid their faces with balaclavas.

For example, in Arkhangelsk, at the class "You should know a hero by his face" at the Northern Federal University, the "war veterans" covered their faces with masks.

The brutal killers who were released from Russian prisons to be sent to the front also took part in meetings with schoolchildren upon their arrival back home.

So recently it became known that Nikita Semyanov, who received 9 years in prison for the murder of his wife's father, whose body he buried in the backyard of his country house, a year after his sentence was sent to the front in Ukraine. Now Semyanov visits schools in Novosibirsk and presents himself as a "hero of the Special military operation," telling children that "it is not scary to die for the motherland," but instead "this is what heroes do."

So-called "veterans of the Special military operation" not only like to travel to schools and give lectures, but also open their own "military-patriotic" sports clubs, where they teach children and teenagers military skills, barracks discipline and, of course, brainwash them.

It is quite obvious that such " after-school lessons" with a concussed murderer cannot end well. However, the mother of a 10-year-old boy from Novosibirsk didn't think about it, so she gave her son to a war criminal Danila Shargan, who twice went to war in Ukraine, and now decided to retrain as a child tutor.

Shargan created a military-sports center in the city and called it "Alpha" (one of Russia's special units), where at field camps he beat children with a stick in front of the whole group for "disobeying orders".

Now the 10-year-old boy is in hospital, and the prosecutor's office has launched an investigation.

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