a sentence for me and the new scene, but i don't go way up next. the commentary. lots of futons propaganda drive for russia's will. you've got office in berlin from via the old listings. the innovation green, the green revolution global. so listen to a whole lot of crime. it's probably up to speed if the carriers subscribe to the subscribe to plan, it's a the use

of the hi, my name is olga stuff on. i run a patriotic ministry support send. so with the youth army, the chose shuttles russian soldiers awful feeling met you t to them up. and then while that defending the russian world, we're training actually trying to prepare for the difficulties. i had just stick with the speed sam costs before firing. so you have to release the safety and then hold your breath in the with your calling tense. what did i just tell you? i'm beginning to lose my patience. how many times do i have to tell the things can

go wrong if you don't follow the safety rules that you come here. most of the just watch with teaching them here will shape them later in life the lot. they should know how to use the gun, which is interesting. they need to be prepared with the physical, more of the actual, the sheer and how do i see the future of my homeland? i see from the powerful russia and thank you for

assistance simply about 30 minutes. rising indeed. not so fine ukraine, this is the whole western world. it's all skyland backstabbing. it has to be fundamentally reform like russia will destroy it. i see the on the 24th of february, 2022, our world changed. the tanks rolled into you crank and foams began to rain down from the sky. the aggressor is russia our homeland. many russians support the attack unconditionally, the others are absolutely horrifying. what is going on

the we are cassini, a bolts of cova, and veronica dorman, journalists with russian roots who grew up in the west. at the end of 2022, we decided to travel across our parents homeland. to try to understand how the russian people could have fallen into this madness. by night by night. the what we documented is a closed off russia full of hatred and violence where young people are being sacrificed for the suppose it good of the country. and fantasies of empire building to clouded people's minds. the

i'm old school at the soviet union gave me everything to a good education. unbelief in the future for i was 20 in 1991. when the us this all collapses. i didn't want to accept it at the time, it seems it was very painful for me to just keep boy the bulk of stuff on grew up in the little hand screeching in what was then the ukrainian soviet socialist republic after the

collapse of the soviet union, she initially worked as a lawyer in russia, but when war broke out and don bass and eastern ukraine in 2014 son joined the pro russian step protests, the she was tasked with delivering humanitarian aid to fighters and civilians on the front lines. it will stop and visit me yet, but i will go on. what should i with todd in the done last for over 10 years, i assume. but once the situation that was saved and i, i knew i needed to do something else that was made 2016. right. when our defense minister beg a showing who created this movement is a little bit confusing. now narnia is a ministry patriotic use, ami,

need some tools and a, you know, near cadet must be a role model for the but the, every one of the patriots pretty good. so it is the, you know, army of recruits, children and young people between the ages of 6 of 18. it's a sprawling organization which dozens of local groups throughout russia. in 2016, the movement had just 25000 members. today, you know, army accounts over 1200000 members the its top cadets march in the annual may, 9th, military parade. and moscow is red square. it's as if we've gone back in time

to a dangerous past with their red and bays uniforms and indoctrinated mines these marchers remind us of nazi germany's hitler used feels eerily like the 1930 under the pretext of promoting patriotism. normally, a has been firmly embedded in the public school curriculum. the, the, the, we find only one russian school willing to open its doors to us. school number 36. like many other schools. it's had its own, you know, army a unit since 2019 the

young cadets have special privileges and they get the honor of marching with the russian flag in front of the assembled student body. the the in september 2022 with russia as war of aggression against ukraine raging. this ceremony was made compulsory for all schools in the country. the, the goal was for all students to be aligned with the safe side, the allergy and internalizing symbols. the

deputy this with with good morning children from wash. i work when you talk conversations about important things today. december 5th, a country is celebrating volunteer day. we're going to talk about the people making our worlds bright and happy a every day. we tell is the officially the one our lesson is intended to instill value such as comradery in these youngsters, and teach them about the history of the country here. i think i will keep this phrase in mind while you watch the video to live means to act. but really, it's brain washing. the issue is let me put you on hold on to these videos are put out by the education ministry. this one seems pretty harmless,

but the very 1st one was definitely not yet. let's go with him at them today. we want to make sense of what's going on soon. we'll be talking about the events in ukraine with, you know, green data. there's this video shows sophia to may go to a 12 year old school girl interviewing a journalist from russian state tv and a russian historian with close government ties. the segment is intended to explain what vladimir putin recalls his special military operation. but in this conversation, the roles have been reversed. russia is portrayed as the victim forced to defend itself after being attacked by ukraine. we, you're the queen. we don't attack residential buildings. i mean, we never strike civilians. we knew we don't destroy social infrastructure like kindergarten. these or some rules or water or power networks on see keeping up when you might know, i understand that i need to be extra careful about the news. i want this down from

now on chat. i will double check everything over the date. the video was published on march 3rd, 2020, to only 8 days after the war. at the con, within a very short time, 20000000 russian school children had watched it. and some schools responded with their own performances and supported the propaganda. the to the search, so is it usually to see what the letter z 1st appeared on russian tanks and has since become known as a propagandist symbol for the russian war of aggression. the weather in saint petersburg, the tamara more

noble, it's appears. principles all over russia have their pupils pose and z formation. social media is filled with post, showing schools trying to outdo each other and they're over the top shows of patriotism, the good news to town, to choosing co. and i'm a teacher at most go school number 1747. as long as i'm able, i'll keep speaking out on behalf of all the teachers who disagree with the system. and the goal is to succeed simply. tatiana knows she's taking a big risk by talking to us, but she's determined to speak openly on camera, about her convictions. your,

i know the content of these conversations about important things that we're supposed to talk about, the special ministry operation and teach 9 year old children that they shouldn't be afraid to die for that homeland or is that what i can't teach something like that. so she had to, she wasn't in each a. yeah, let them go to work in the 1st time the kids was supposed to have patriotism lessons to fit you. i stood in front of the class and said that we should all be patriots as well. and since this is actually a mass, less than the most patriotic thing to do now is solve a few math problems because that's what you logic. but what was the chest, what would you spend the best as a member of russia's only independent teacher's union, tatiana decided to go public. i guess today is catchy on the to being cool. 6 months teacher at school, $1747.00. on september 7th, 2022,

she gave an interview on dish, an opposition tv channel band and russia. this is a very serious issue because it concerns our children. this conversation resulted in a written reprimand for tatiana, which was sent to the principal. the document was titled violations of professional duties by a teacher enlisted her legit violations. in january 2023, tatiana was dismissed from misconduct. it was it still later there was a very strict hierarchy in every state institution, but anyways, this development has been particularly noticeable in our educational institutions in recent years skim. oh, but as long as at the throughout the day, you want to watch that you, i was to assist an individual that was the think you are just a tiny cold in the wheel and that there are many and difficult just like you couldn't use and none of us special in any way, because these are some pursue,

most of it's stolen. tiny, cogs in the great big state machine. under vladimir putin, russians have become submissive citizens. but that wasn't always the case. the, in the, in the winter of 2011 anger boiled over in russia's major cities as the russian middle class learned of the massive voter fraud that helped hooton's party when the parliamentary elections the,

you know, to deal with the company and be sure, you know, when the elections are stolen from us, it's such a citizen to december 2011 loop loop demonstrate to hold onto the streets and squares of the cities community. even though mcgee at his presidency, had only been characterized by halted liberalization, there was still some relax ations during those 4 years a little that they need to live. even calling the phrase freedom is better than lack of freedom. oh, my god, how beforehand isn't that woke russians office level the made seems brave enough to develop the political run just media data, police interest at the time we were working as moscow correspondence for french media outlets and reporting on the protests as franco russian citizens. we also believed in the

people's uprising, especially the anti food movement, with its care as medical leaders. like forest ma'am, saw the bill. yeah, yeah. i've seen done that scene the, the key who was the government was only to come with fear it was supposed that sort of protests could potentially turn into a revolution. you might have that to kick the whole russian machinery of repression that you know, it's a gap email to reach the after his re election as president in march 2012 vladimir putin consolidated his authoritarian regimes power state violence became the norm in russia.

the last major opposition demonstration in the country took place on may 6th, 2012 resulting and clashes where a riot police beat up demonstrators and arbitrarily arrested dozens of people. in addition to this obvious refreshing, the government pursued a strategic plan to crush the uprising and make russians forget any dreams of over throwing the reason, the losing the regime, trying to scare the population and when their support simultaneously did you. immediately after the spring, the regime had a clear message for russian society just looks to you really want such a bloody revolution on the streets of your cities. so people, fonts can, equipment, may not be good enough, but at least he's keeping order in the country fiction like which led to more and

more demonstrators distancing themselves from the liberal opposition to the notice that all of the, the threat of a revolution also brought back painful memories of the chaos that are up to the 1991 after the cool opposite the soviet union, the afraid of losing what little progress had been made. in the 1st years of the new millennium, most russian citizens decided to submit and trade their freedom. for security, the little by little a whole arsenal of repressive laws was enacted. demonstrations were gradually band and g o's dissolved, and the free press muscle, the

slowly a shroud was being lowered over our country. meanwhile the opposition leaders who spearheaded the 2011 revolt were now in exile, dead for in prison. november 7th, 2020 to $1.00 of the final hearings in the trial against ileo dashing was held in the moscow court room. the opposition leader was on trial for violating a new article of the russian penal code. he faced up to 15 years in prison for

defamation of the armed forces. he was accused of posting a video on the internet in which he denounced the war crimes committed by russian soldiers and boucher ukraine. on december 9th, 2022. only a few weeks after his last hearing ilia was sentenced to 8 and a half years in prison. without per all, this was the toughest sentence ever handed out under the new law. and it came as a big shock to us. 8 and a half years. just for sticking out the, our country has been plunged into dark times. since the start of the war against ukraine in 2022 fascism has been on the rise in russia. and even children are now being persecuted for dissenting. the

10 year old vari, a gal. kina is a 5th grade student in moscow suburb. in september 2022 vargas teacher reported her to the police for offense. having this picture on her cell phone or a st with a rocket launcher under the banner glory to ukraine. and having drawn this picture, showing a russian and a ukrainian child under the words, yes, a mere meaning. i'm for peace. on october, 5th, sorry is mother elena was called to the school. it marks the beginning of a terrible nightmare for the family then that i was in a russian class and had no idea what it was all about. i thought it was because i

had got a bad rate in my on a j a. but when i sold a police woman, i quickly realized, but it wasn't about biology. no, i was waiting outside the school for various and then i saw her come out of the door with a police woman saw by the police woman said to me, barriers coming to the police station near full. i was in shock and various don't to cry. just she screamed to start kissing me mommy, mommy, mommy. but they wouldn't let me see my daughter the to the other month, but the details done is young way. we were surrounded by mothers and fathers waiting for the children. i shouted to them. someone has to film this, i'm going to say, but they just stood there staring at the ground and pretend that they hadn't seen anything. the stuff at the police station,

laria and her mother were questioned by the police and an agent from the f. s. b. the russian security service, the duties support politically. what tv shows do you watch at home? give us your cell phone and show us the news. your posting on social media. the police search the family home without a warrant. they ransacked every single room and went through alaina's computer, the only incriminating object they were able to find was the souvenir from keith of the issue that this, which was in the evening off. it was, it was uh, i sat down with valerie on off to what's on your mind. what was because she looked at me and said, should we need to get the hell out of here, mom? what about that?

i have lost and i knew she would be fine and what's the bunk of so. ready by march 15th 202319586 people had been arrested for making statements critical of the war. the procedure just in russia. any form of activism that hasn't been initiated by the authorities is considered suspicious. and as soon as something is critical of the government, it's immediately banned because the ship alexander, to your cost of had to flee russia. he's the leader of memorial, a russian human rights organization, working under constant pressure from the russian authorities. until it was finally

shut down by a russian court. for more than 30 years, memorial has documented the crimes of the soviet regime and was awarded the nobel peace prize in 2022. they also criticized pollutants constant efforts to rewrite freshman history for his own purposes. store to know what's up to here in the history of our country and the 20th century is a series of tragedies on scrub revolution. the civil war, the terror under stolen and the famine. yep. the current government presents all of these as individual catastrophes that just befell us out of no. where is it? the political leadership had nothing to do with it. they said she left us to india . it's the so this was less than that, that's ridiculous because the terror was politically motivated or but the state and its security services have managed to whitewash the story so that they appear in a sense, sylvester, according to them,

everything was for our own good to me even if they may be over step, if you boundaries in the process with a specific one, you've 6 busting the a benefactor state that always emerges victorious. that's the idea that vladimir putin has instilled in the russians by exploiting a key historical event. the victory over nazi germany in 1945 the when we arrive in moscow, red square is unrecognizable. soldiers in world war 2 uniforms are marching here. in commemoration, 81 years ago, the red army marched into battle from this same spot. courage, inter, robust of them are glorified, personal sacrifice for the motherland portrayed as the highest honor. but the

horrors of the war and the 27000000 lives that claimed are largely ignored by the temporary near the remembrance of war. and victory has always been associated with the terrible memories of human laws. but now this part of history has become distorted in people's minds think, i'm sorry, we've gone from never again to we can do it again for some studies. the images from 19412022 are being shown side by side on giant screens. we feel a deep sense of unease. the commemoration is a clear attempt to justify russia's war against ukraine. these 2 arrows have become so intertwined that people are left with only one thought. the 300000 russians call to serve their country and the war against

ukraine must live up to the sacrifices of their ancestors. this narrative has russia fighting the same old enemy, nazis who have invaded ukraine and want to attack russia. ordered that the will get done, will carry russia is fighting nazis and ukraine. you gotta be kidding me. crazy attempt to put it bluntly. the president of ukraine is on your go, a jewish annuity. consider ukrainian is really candidate named have benefits, receive more votes in the last election that his rival from the right wing nationalist party said, oh, okay. and that's just and yet the kremlin constantly claims that ukraine is keeping with nazis alluded to this nimble. it doesn't make any sense. there's no logic to it as long as the customer doesn't renew and it can then again, why bother with logic when your goal is to turn people against something. the soldiers being sent to ukraine are being glorified. russia's new heroes are

watching over us on every street corner and they keep being sent to the front by the thousands. it's estimated that by 2023 more than 200000 russians were killed or wounded in combat. our country has become in human, a cannibalistic regime, as the russians say, a country that devours its own children, the vultures that's in russian society and that most men on to allow it to be cowards, schumann, you more so they have to be real warriors and big machine, a boy in the yellow to watch a file. yeah, my name is pablo flat, the f for this i felt as

a member of the 56 app on a soap regiment for the 1st 2 months of the war. and the crime is a because i criticized the ball by july to leave the regiment some free, my country special deals at the why and all that out. so the but i could go on and talk about my honesty, my moral finance and my upfront current. but honestly, i couldn't imagine going through another 6 months of pool. i don't know what kind of person i would be to die. and it was kind of atrocities already committing. raping bombing of residential areas, looting, torturing and killing civilians. in december 2022, the ukrainian prosecutor general's office stated that it was already investigating 40000 cases of russian war crimes the way. yeah.

through jake's almost the colors around me really believed in the stories about nazis and fascist. and they split the, they were full of hatred against the crime by what the russian army has special office is responsible for the origin, logical education of the troops which towards his chest designated to come and get up all the. ready political like school, that would be just kind of bucks and one hour a week here. all the soldiers accounted in launch really well. you know, some of the lessons of based on the documents passed down from on high end. but like i bought a windows computer, it's design yet we have one of these documents. it is dated 26th of february 2020, to $2.00 days after russia invited ukraine. the $48.00 page report is titled the whole truth about ukraine's crimes in the dumbass. it sets out the reasons for russia's military intervention,

reason number one for russia's actions, state directed naziism persecution, and murder of russian speaking people. it goes on to say, in ukraine, people are beaten up for speaking russian, fired from their job for speaking russian. this persecution is sanctioned by the ukraine authorities. the document also contains a series of unbearable images, photos of dead children and chart corpse as depicted as victims of the genocide of russian speaking people allegedly taking place in ukraine. the report states that ukraine with the support of the west, is preparing for an attack on russia, possibly including a nuclear strikes. this distortion of facts often using an authentic or false fight images contributes to the dehumanization of the enemy, the resumes prop again, the measures of taking on new dimensions since the beginning of the war and ukraine

. and not just in the military barracks, the war mongering and conspiracy theories have also taken root in the minds of ordinary russian civilians. the show my city is surrounded by mountains of cliff. it's like living in a coal drink. we spend our last night in russia with ludmilla. she is 83 years old from the way she built on us and loves her tv shows. she could just as easily be one of our own grandmothers daily news just by what you all the reports from the whole and political programs. as is the case for 75 percent of russians, state television is our only source of information. and that's new.

fast i didn't need to, i should have changed in any of these 2 of the neighborhoods, even just a tiny piece, if you crane you will go down in history is affect tucker, but be due to the other grades as well. that's who is he supposed to liberate it from? lots of stuff. no up to date from the nazis, from the people who bombs don't and can lew hands for a to yes before who was doing the bombing? they did. you don't believe it? we can see it with our own eyes on the tv, couldn't we see how the people there are cheering in the streets of its to me low wasn't always such a big fan of flat america. she's angry with him for having raised the retirement age in 2018 for changing the constitution in 2020 to keep himself in power in definitely for enriching himself on the backs of the russian people to use this where you meet, you don't know if he hadn't done his job properly,

country would it be doing well now? so not that my daughter always says to me, mom, he doesn't give a damn about you or anyone else, and he doesn't need the restroom. people know what do you think of him? what's going on with you last time we woke up when the war broke out, it brought him a new kind of respect off of the world as against us. but he refuses to back down the strongest countries in the world. have done dep on him and want to white brush are off the map and i'm not the full but i see you use, how are we supposed to respond to that? sure, we nature was a cruise saying that to the television because we might do more than one books. can you go? my mother is a smart woman who has worked in management positions or her life. she's full of energy and joy as much and doesn't just believe everything she's told you because on the truck,

because i tend to do the same for and you want. yeah. it suffice good, which is one. the worry one morning she said to me on the phone deep down, everyone knows what's really going on. but we don't want to admit this to you, please need some immediate your model just i'm, i was happy to hear his say that and even sent a message to my friends saying it was a small success. you can use the next time i called her she started talking about the nature threat again about ukrainians having to be saved from the oppression of fascism versus propaganda. had his family and it's great again. natasha markovich, ludmilla. his daughter has been living in london for several years. as a psychologist, she says she recognizes the phenomenon that's affecting the russian population. her mother included the,

according to her, the whole nation is afflicted with a mental illness. indeed certainly we must, which it's called a shed psychotic disorder. as soon as the war started, i saw a typical science of russians being thrown into a coach. the way it works is you don't have much self confidence and think your life has no meaning. i mean it's you bought then someone comes along who offers you some external structure and that for a reason to live you enter the 10 digit because according to him, you are not a good for nothing but a representative of the great russian nation. do. you cannot see to resend all the people who say otherwise and try to get you to leave the cult or the bad guys or the, the evils. and they will, will parish in the file. what i need to cancel, you know, on you for giving me your to convince someone to leave a coat. you 1st have to distance them from. it says natasha. a seemingly impossible

task when the whole population of a country with 140000000 inhabitants is effected. natasha talks to her mother on the phone several times a week. she tries to snap lewd mueller out of her propaganda induced hypnosis. only for a few minutes. and natasha. stop saying bad things about russia and bringing shame on me. dress ma'am, what are you talking about? there's every shame supporting the russian war against ukraine. and that doing what to care. there is nothing there in date as terrorist don't listen to your old neighbors. they believe everything that told it's a nightmare in russia truth has been turned on its head toward the short notice. that despite their

differences, mother and daughter still talk to each other. but that's not the case. and many russian families, russians who are against the war. people like natasha and like us, are having an identity crisis. our mother tongue has become the language of weapons and lice. it causes as pain. we never knew before. you would, you all have to dial to switch. i feel guilty. i'm ashamed to be russian. of course, i'm not throwing problems, but i can't completely absolve myself of what's going on. i feel really miserable coming from the aggressive state. but at the same time, i have no right to complain. i'm not the one who's suffering the ukrainians. uh the consequences. let's end with a toast. just as a soviet dissidence used to push a toast to victory in the fight between life and death is when things are going

badly. i always think back to the discipline as that came before us. they give me hope that all is not yet lost. in russia, even the longest periods of horror have always come to a very abrupt and distribution noon, you know too much expert. i hope the russian stuff is of the peoplesoft but for but the country is forced to question itself by them. so that puts in his arbitrage alone and russia can reinvent itself from within. because in its current state, when the russia is not compatible with the 21st century, good are

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