Through the eyes of Sasha Mitrofanov: The war in Russia is supposed to be the normal state of the world for children

I immediately remembered my childhood in the 1960s. It’s not that they don’t bombard us with war themes up and down. But it was always accompanied by the refrain that war is a terrible thing and must never happen again. This was also worn in official culture. Yevgeny Yevtushenko wrote the poem Zdalipak, the Russians want war, and the song with these words was still played on TV and radio. I also remember another song where it was sung that boys paint war and it ended with the words: “I thank my country and those who fell on the last subway, that boys paint war on paper.”

For a more cultured audience, there was Bulat Okudžava’s song Oh war, what did the bastard do… In short, I never experienced the promotion of war as a child, let alone in preschool age. But now it’s completely different in Russia.

The reactions of Russian parents to the mentioned “encyclopedia for the little ones” are interesting. They are mostly happy that their caparti already know what it’s like to slaughter enemies in unlimited quantities thanks to her. But there are also negative inputs. For example: “It is a very controversial book. Not for kids at all. They describe how many Germans were killed by snipers, how women and children were burned alive, torture is described… It is written in bad, disorganized language.”

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Or: “Listen, this is madness! For the little ones?! The chapter on snipers, it’s a hit parade of killing.” And the most succinct response: “As a book for the little ones, it’s terrible.” It turns out that a certain number of Russian parents still hold positions characteristic of more advanced civilizations. But the trend is different.

It is no work at all to find photos and videos of Russian mothers in which caparti marching in military uniforms under the command of aunts in tight gymnasiums. He brags about it. Like the parents who recently posted a photo of two toddlers in uniform. After all, these uniforms “for children from 0 to 3 years old” are normally on sale.

For a whole century, officially approved slogans sounded in the Soviet, then in the Russian May Day parades Peace! Work! May! But then the police started making arrests in the streets for the dove of peace in the lapel. Finally, slogans without the dubious word peace were published in some places this year. For example, in Togliatti it was Work! Family! Dynasty! and in St. Petersburg (Sankt-Peterburg) Spring, work and Peterburg.

War is promoted as the normal state of the world. Of that world, which is called russkij mir. That is why the loyal media published as a normal report the story of how two Russian soldiers met in Ukraine. One is a convicted cannibal and the other a convicted maniac and mass murderer. They became friends and are actually heroes.