A special forces unit demonstrated its melee combat skills to elementary school students in central Russia last week, sparking outrage among parents, a local television station has reported.
Prison service guards wearing helmets and bearing shields showed fifth-graders how to club an imaginary enemy at a school auditorium in the Chelyabinsk region town of Zlatoust, as seen in a news segment by the local Zlat-TV channel. Most of the children’s parents had reportedly not been informed of the demonstration in advance and flooded the school with calls after seeing the news report.
During the display, the unit’s leader is seen ordering his subordinates to show the assembled schoolchildren how to strike from different positions, while a banner reading “life for the motherland, honor to no one!” is seen on the wall.
Critics haved called similar displays of military might to young Russians a misguided attempt by authorities to breed a loyal base of future voters.
“I believe demonstrations of physical force against citizens can in no way ingrain patriotism and love for the motherland,” local assemblywoman Olga Mukhometyarova wrote in a social media post Monday.
The Zlatoust mayor’s office called in the school’s director to find out the circumstances of the demonstration, Russia’s Podyom news website reported, after national outlets ran segments about the video.
Earlier this month, schoolchidren in the town were shown rifle handling and wrestling displays by young men and women in t-shirts bearing the logo of the Emergency Situations Ministry.
Most recently, police units in the republic of Tatarstan recruited ninth-graders to pose as protesters in a display of crowd-dispersal tactics. Police there said they were looking into the incident, which was filmed last Friday.
“The entire country is discussing how police in Tatarstan practiced dispersing rallies on schoolchildren,” Mukhometyarova wrote.
“[Now our] region has also distinguished itself,” she added.
(c) The Moscow Times
I think this is an excellent idea by the Kremlin to show these kids what the future holds for them in Muscovy.
Man I wish I could have been there to show the school kids how to fight back!
In the SCA several years ago, a group of us went to Canada to teach the mounted police how to form and break shield walls. After watching the techniques by the Berkut and OMAN it would be very easy for the protesters to take their weapons and break through.
Russia are getting faster close to being the planet of the apes than their muzzlim idols…
What next, a demonstration by the FSB on how to blow up an apartment block?
Or how to downe a commercial airliner…
Excellent, teach kids how to be violent thugs.
Next week kiddies we will be having the kamikaze school of Japan to show us how. Volunteers will be required.
The week after that we will be hosting Ali akbar rafsanjani who will be teaching us all how cut off each others head. Swords will be provided.
Fucking country is sick.
No doubt those who showed most promise were noted and will later be taught how to administer a severe beating but not leave any marks and the easiest most painful way to break bones.
How to extract a confession without talking to the victim.
That would also include special lessons on how to get a protestor to head butt a truncheon.
Hahahaha……..!!