Berets, boots and flags: Russia teaches young children to revere army

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In Russia, the Kremlin is increasingly instilling support for the armed forces in the classroom, in  bid to ensure its youngest citizens are behind the "special military operation" in Ukraine. Russian children are being encouraged to join pro-military youth movements, and thousands learn from text books that justify the Ukraine operation as the latest in a string of successful Russian and Soviet campaigns to defend the motherland.

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00:00Viva!

00:03Carudon e Iasini!

00:08Viva!

00:10Vsem vami!

00:12Viva!

00:14Viva!

00:16Viva!

00:19Pachach! Tema pokrepche!

00:21Abnevu!

00:30I wish the guys good health, too.

00:38Keep supporting our...

00:40Children should know what war is, what fascism is.

00:45And I think that if the teachers explain it to them correctly,

00:50from the perspective of our worldview, the Russian worldview,

00:57then the children will never grow up bad.

01:18We will not go to meetings,

01:21we will go to our kisses.

01:25The sky will rise,

01:27and our flags will still be there.

01:31We will go to our kisses.

01:34Of course, I explain to our children the essence of the conflict,

01:38where it all started,

01:40that it was an inevitable decision of our president.

01:45There are many stories about the Great Patriotic War.

01:50Last year we brought a few people here

01:55to meet with the guys.

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