Kremlin Revives Soviet-Style Youth Indoctrination as It Eyes ‘Forever War’ With Ukraine and the West - The Moscow Times
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The Kremlin is working to systematically instill “patriotic” values in children and teenagers through a Soviet-style propaganda campaign as it looks toward preparing the next generation for a life shaped by conflict with Ukraine and the West. “We need warriors, gunmen, stormtroopers — those who, at the president’s first call, will rush to the military enlistment offices, not Verkhny Lars,” a Russian government official said, referring to the Russian-Georgian border crossing where tens of thousands of Russians fled the country during the fall 2022 “partial” mobilization for the war.“And there's nothing to be embarrassed about,” he said.

The Kremlin is working to systematically instill “patriotic” values in children and teenagers through a Soviet-style propaganda campaign as it looks toward preparing the next generation for a life shaped by conflict with Ukraine and the West.

    • mwguy@infosec.pubEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Because they’ll make a fortune from the next guy too. But they won’t see their entire labor pool decimated.

          • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            2 months ago

            What would cut into their profits?? Have you never seen how authoritarian regimes work? Do you think North Korea officials want to revolt because of their starving labor pool?

            • mwguy@infosec.pubEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Not a lot of North Korean billionaires living it up in the West though. To extract that level of wealth you need a better class of worker.

                • mwguy@infosec.pubEnglish
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                  2 months ago

                  History says that it is. There have opuoentoy wealthy people into Antiquity. But supporting the number of opuoentoy wealthy that modern Russia has requires an organized economy. You can’t have 1,000 Billionaires in an 500B sized economy.

            • rammer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Western sanctions. Seizure of said profits. Inability to spend any of it on things they want. Devaluation of the ruble. Shrinking Russian economy.

              These may not affect the very top that much. At least not for a while. But there are a lot of middle managers that got used to the good things in life.

        • mwguy@infosec.pubEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Industry requires labor. And an extract based wealth generation scheme requires a large amount of unskilled and semi-skilled labor along with a relatively small amount of highly skilled specialists to operate.

          It’s in your interest for the unskilled and semi-skilled labor to be as vast as possible to keep costs down.