“Hero’s desk”: how the occupiers impose their history on children under the guise of “patriotism”
In the temporarily occupied territories, Russians continue to actively use a propaganda tool called the “Hero’s Desk”.
Under the guise of “fostering respect for history,” children are taught a distorted image of heroism from an early age through Soviet narratives, the cult of war, and the glorification of death for the “motherland.”
Over the past week, several schools in the TOT in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions have joined this project. In the village of Semenivka, for example, a “desk” was solemnly opened for schoolchildren in honor of another “hero of the USSR” who died in 1945, and then they planted trees and fed the children “soldier’s porridge.” In Kherson region, meanwhile, new desks appeared in four schools on the initiative of the United Russia party.
The occupiers have come up with a kind of “motivation” for students, noting that only the most successful ones should sit at such a desk
Thus, the Russians are imposing a foreign history on Ukrainian children, imprinting Soviet myths about pseudo-heroes of the Soviet Union in their memory and actively comparing them to war criminals of the “svo”.
Propaganda in schools in the TOT is preparing a new generation for war, not for life.
It is important to talk about this and document it so that in the future Russians can be held accountable for all crimes.
Read more about the crimes of the Russian occupiers in the TOT in the latest issue of Resistance News #109 – Digest of Events in the Temporarily Occupied Territories and the Ukrainian Struggle.
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