Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/10335519
The first textbook for the new subject, called The Russian Army in Defence of the Fatherland, has been produced by leading Russian education publisher Enlightenment. Among its authors are two senior figures who work for the defence ministry and Kremlin newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta.
Its 368 pages are filled with stories describing the “heroic achievements of Russian soldiers” from the 13th Century to the present day.
It’s “Starship Troopers” all over again. We invaded and tormented a formerly peaceful civilization, and now that they have struck back, we are going to spread propaganda painting them as nothing but “bugs” that deserve eradication and making it seem like an heroic act to join the fascist ranks of our beloved nationalist armies.
Personally I always root for the bugs.
Perfect strategy. They can’t grow up to become dissidents if they are already sunflower fertilizer.
I thought Russians referred to motherland not the fatherland. Is this a Putin shift?