DW Asked Siberian Students About School Propaganda and Their Future
The Russian government wants children to learn patriotism from an early age, Deutsche Welle reports, and its reporting takes up the other half of that project: what it feels like from inside a classroom. DW spoke to students in Siberia about propaganda at school concerning the war in Ukraine, and about their futures.
Curriculum documents can tell you what a state intends to teach. Whether the lesson lands, and what a teenager does with it, is a separate question — and one that only shows up when you ask the students rather than the ministry.
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Patriotism taught from an early age and support for one specific war are different lessons, even when a school timetable puts them in the same hour.
Different lessons on paper, maybe. A patriotism curriculum written in wartime rarely bothers to keep them apart, which is exactly why the students' own account is worth hearing.