Dec. 11, 2024, 5:58 p.m.
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Educational institutions in the occupied Kherson region are becoming platforms for Russian propaganda.
According to the National Resistance Center, in the left-bank part of the Kherson region, which is temporarily occupied by Russians, employees of educational institutions invite Russian military personnel to visit children for celebrations.
During the week, the occupiers celebrated their "Day of Heroes of the Fatherland". On this occasion, the head of the Tavriya kindergarten "Romashka" organized a meeting between the Russian military and the children. The soldiers told the kids about their "heroic deeds" and encouraged them to join the army in the future.
The National Resistance Center also reported that the Russian military is increasingly using schools and kindergartens for propaganda. In particular, some educational institutions are installing boxes for anonymous denunciations to control and intimidate local residents.
Collaboration with the occupiers in the temporarily occupied territories is a fairly common practice.
Recently, the former director of one of the lyceums in Nova Kakhovka, who sided with the occupiers, was sentenced to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property. He was tried in absentia. The convicted person is Vyacheslav Reznikov, 44, who worked as a master of industrial training at one of the schools in Nova Kakhovka before the war, and in 2019 he became the head of the local lyceum No. 10.
Also, a professor at a local university in Kherson organized training for students according to Russian standards. The teacher has been suspected of collaboration, but so far in absentia.
In addition, law enforcement officers served a notice of suspicion to a former lyceum director from the Kakhovka district of Kherson region who was engaged in propaganda and helped to implement Russian standards in education.
Ірина Глухова