Russian Authorities Plan to Indoctrinate Ukrainian Students in Crimea

In 2025, the occupation authorities plan to take 140 students of grades 7-11 from Kherson region to Sevastopol. The purpose of the transfer is "deep immersion in the history of Russia."

According to Holos Kryma, in the occupied territory of Kherson region, Russians have launched a project called "Road to Taurida". The project was initiated by the so-called "head of the Union of Mothers of the Kherson region" Alina Shamrai. She was allegedly inspired by her son Oleksii, who studied history in the Ukrainian school curriculum until grade 7, in which "many historical periods were deliberately silenced or distorted." So now "it is difficult for them to navigate the material."

Alina Shamrai. Photo: rosmedia

Therefore, within the framework of this project, with the help of the occupation "Department of Internal Policy of the Kherson Region," children will be taken to museums of federal significance in Sevastopol "for a deeper dive into the history of Russia" and will also communicate with local schoolchildren.

In the future, the occupation authorities plan to take children from the TOT of Kherson region to "other hero cities of Russia and Belarus."

Earlier, the lawyer of the Regional Center for Human Rights <b>Kateryna Rashevska</b> said that the re-education of Ukrainian teenagers and youth is very well integrated into the policy of the Russian Federation, and it is carried out by bodies of different levels - federal, regional, occupation and even Ukrainian collaborators:

"This is a set of measures aimed at militarizing and politically indoctrinating Ukrainian children through both formal and non-formal education. Both in the occupied territory and in the territory of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus."

Before that, the occupation authorities of the Kherson region forced children to tear up the graves of victims of Nazi mass shootings in 1941-1943 near Henichesk. The invaders called this involvement of schoolchildren in the exhumation of human remains"patriotic education." In addition to children, heavy machinery was also involved in the "search work," which could simply destroy the burial site.

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