On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the pioneers in Russia, a regular children’s organization. It includes 18 million children
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All factions are present in the State Duma, control over the all-Russian movement of children and youth has been introduced. It happened on the day when it turned 100 years old. The authors promise voluntary involvement in the movement, but at the same time estimate the detection potential at 18 million people. The goals of the organization are to form a worldview based on exclusion, love of birth and hard work.
Why is movement necessary?
The movement will be called “Big Change”, a statement in the report, which was adopted by a group of deputies and senators, among the participants in the meeting of the committee on family affairs, Nina Ostanina and the head of the committee on education, Olga Kazakova. General Assembly – State Association for the collection of children and youth, participation in the upbringing of children, the creation of opportunities for self-realization and preparation for ensuring life in society.
The participants in the movement, as follows from the document, become children from the age of six, and they are taught by full-year-old young people who have graduated from school, technical school or college. Several times during the inspection it is repeated that “foreign agents” are not allowed to work with children. .
What exactly will be taught to children, the report does not say. There are vague formulas in the lumbar note to the monitoring: regulation of the rate of spread “the formation of their worldview depending on the deviations of Russian spiritual and environmental norms”, and will also help develop their inherent qualities, love and inclination for the Fatherland.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin will be offered to become the head of the movement’s supervisory board, writes Meduza (the publication is included in Russia’s register of “foreign agents”).
Joining the “Big Break” will be voluntary, the report says. It also mentions that activity programs are implemented “in non-state educational organizations, as well as non-profit organizations.” However, one of the co-authors of the revision, Olga Kazakova, has already announced that the movement will be represented in all schools in Russia, it includes about 18 million children.
Are they new pioneers?
The “big change” of the uprising was associated with the Soviet pioneer movement – especially since the law was submitted to the State Duma on the day of the future pioneer. The leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov has already talked about the new movement: he believes that the “Big Change” has a future only if it inherits the traditions of the pioneers and the Komsomol.
“If they again sit and invent just to show off, nothing will come of it,” Zyuganov said on the radio “Moscow speaking”.
It is impossible to call the “Big Break” a tracing paper of the pioneers, although the experience of the pioneer organization will be taken into account, RIA Novosti quotes the head of Rosmolodezh, Ksenia Razuvaeva. Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that no one is going to revive the pioneers. “Big Break” is a unified, informal social movement of schoolchildren and young people, he said.
On the day of the pioneering in Russia, solemn events were held. A festival was opened in Kirov in honor of the 100th anniversary of the pioneer organization: the head of the authorities of the Kirov region came there in a pioneer tie. In St. Petersburg, on the deck of the Aurora cruiser, schoolchildren were tied with scarlet ties and accepted as pioneers.
Lessons on sanctions and singing the anthem
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the indoctrination of children intensified at the school. With schoolchildren spent actions “Write a letter to a soldier”, they are evicted in the letter Z and danced with tricolors. The Ministry of Education held special all-Russian lessons: they explained that a “special operation” was needed to protect the inhabitants of Donbass, and Western observations would only strengthen the discussion of Russia.
Minister of Education Sergey Kravtsov announcedthat in every school at the beginning of a new week they raise the Russian flag and sing the national anthem.
It is planned to do this only from September 1. But in some regions, this ceremony has already been introduced in schools, without waiting for the new school year. In May, this “tradition” became mandatory for all schoolchildren in the Leningrad Region, reports Media Ceremony with the flag already implemented in the schools of Ugra: only excellent students and those provided with the militarized organization “Yunarmiya” are allowed to raise the barrier.
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