AS. Russian tanks entered Ukraine in February 2022, fighting a parallel battle on the Home Front – not with a weapon but with ideology, which was reaching deep into the country’s classrooms.
At a high school in Krabash, a small industrial town in the Euroral mountains, teachers Paul Talankan knew that he had to do its documents.
Almost Thoughts overnight, the school-and a narrow-minded community where the free-inspired Talcon, known as Pasha for his students, accepted his role as a ninety-nurtured educator-militancy and militancy. It was controlled by war propaganda. As a long -lasting video, Talankin was instructed by his top officers to do the implementation of the Kremlin’s new guidance: forming a standing generation in the most national ideas and joining the military fighting in Ukraine soon. Ready for
Against the war, Talankin instead came out to occupy and demonstrate the world an unlawful, internal theory and show how Putin’s war against Ukraine was creating the lives of Russian children. “Me immediately. It was known that it had to be preserved for a historical record. I quickly realized that this content could not be wasted, “Talankan told Observer.
Will turn into recording Mr No one against PutinA thrilling documentary film that took place last month at the Syndrins Film Festival, where he won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award.
The idea of the film came out in the early days of the war, when Talankan offered his footage and started reaching free shops. Finally, his story reached David Boren Einstein, an American filmmaker, who directed the project as well as the project.
Under the following orders to meet the school’s propaganda references, Talankan fought a secret and extremely dangerous mission to document Putin’s Information War at home. In a country where all independent journalism has been banned, Talankan said he has an unprecedented seat in front of history. “Any journalist who was walking in schools is trying to make a movie immediately. He will be sent to jail. I was put in this unique situation,” he said.
“The Russian Ministry of Education will send very detailed orders that some lessons were to be filmed, and I will go and film.”
In the documentary, Talankin shows how children have been ordered to march with the Russian flag, read the latest hidden history books that defend the attack on Russia’s Ukraine and in a hand grenade tournament. Competition.
Former soldier of war, often notoriously notorious Wagner semi -military group’s former criminals, Visit schools to preach “patriotic values” Since the start of the war on children, Moscow has been spending millions of rubles to mold a new generation that is ready to give its lives in military services. Russian analysts have described the ideological sanctions of the teen as one of the areas where the Russian state comes close to being absolute.
“Schools are one of the important places where they spread propaganda,” Talankan said. “Fascism can root in the easiest ways in schools with children,” he added.
Highlighting the campaign to convert Russian schools into militant equipment, Putin announced last year: “Wars win not by commanders but by school teachers.”
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In the film, Talankin offers an important picture of how Russia’s militancy enters his school. He pushes teachers on the complexities of his character. The former also includes a history teacher and a tough Putin supporter, Abdul Manov, who openly praised Stalin’s most notorious chickens.
However, other, propagandists struggle with their new characters, and rely on their anxiety by changing the direction of the school. “Many teachers do not want to do this, but they are stuck,” Talankan said.
“People study to dream of becoming teachers and educating children, then forced to spread themselves propaganda.”
“There is a lack of jobs in Krabash, and for many – especially old teachers – there was no option to overthrow his life,” said Talankin. Finally, most of what happens in the classroom feels like a stage roll play for cameras, both teachers and students read from the prepared notes, and recite the state’s expectations.
Talankin gave remarks.
Nevertheless, he warns, the effects of militancy are real and solid: “For young children, everything is taken as a truth to their teacher. The long -term effect of military propaganda will be felt.
Talankin said that old students are often more skeptical, but he saw the first hand of propaganda on the people around him. Some of his former classmates and friends decided to sign military agreements and fight in Ukraine – some are coming home in coffins.
Until the summer of 2024, Talankin felt that the walls were closing. A policeman was walking outside his house, and his anti -war ideas were visible in Karbash as Russia was tightening his grip on a wave of stringent laws. Without telling anyone – not even his mother – he fled Russia in June 2024, carrying seven footage hard drives with him.
Since the release of his documentary, the reactions have been mixed in the Karabash. “Just yesterday, I received a message of support from someone back home. But before that, I received a lot of threats, long voice miles called me a traitor to the motherland.
Nevertheless, he hopes that many people will be able to watch the movie in his hometown and his hometown. “I want more and more people in Russia to see it as much as possible – not only in Krabash, but everywhere. For their own good.
