I was kidnapped by Russia at 16 — like so many Ukrainian kids
www.thetimes.com
It’s estimated nearly 20,000 children in Ukraine have been abducted during the war and sent by Russia for ‘re-education’. A new documentary film reveals the horrors they face

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/4931252

Archived version

Here you can see a trailer (3 min, scroll to the bottom of the page)

More about the film and upcoming events to watch across the globe are on the documentary’s website: https://www.childreninthefire.com/

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Children in the Fire [is] a new documentary directed by Evgeny Afineevsky, a Russian-born, US-based film-maker whose previous works include Cries from Syria, about the Syrian civil war, and the Oscar-nominated Winter on Fire, which covered the 2013-14 Euromaidan protests in Ukraine. Along with horrifying stories of abduction and forced adoption, the new film also features children who have endured extensive burns, injuries and amputations since February 2022.

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The film includes footage of Putin stating that, “Wars are not won by generals, but rather by schoolteachers and priests.”

“He is saying that re-education is the key element of winning the war. And it applies not only to Ukrainian kids; it applies to the entirety of Russia. He is trying to create a sort of Hitler Youth movement.”

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    +1, I get it.

    I don’t know how to say this inoffensively, but I think China (speaking broadly) has a cultural victim complex, which is understandable given their history.

    And I think China and Russia governments stoke this victimization for political benefit, kinda like the US convervative movement is doing now.

    Anyway, I think that leads to reflexive denial of their own atrocities as if its an abuser blaming a more enlightened victim. And as for the tankies actually outside of those countries, well… I don’t really know.

    • FreeMindFreeAss@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      I think part of it is younger people waking up to how propagandized our government has made them, and then swinging to the opposite side. Like “All that stuff the soviets or ccp said must have been true if so much of what our government said was a lie”. I did something like that after leaving the evangelical church when I was 18. Strong to atheism before adopting a more open-minded approach with room for the fact that I can be very mistaken.

      I understand the cultural victimization thing, and it is completely understandable. China is a very unique case, we can learn a lot from them, I just hope that we can come to respect each-other enough to learn from our advantages instead of one-upping our destructive tendencies. Chinese people are awesome, Americans are cool too. And each nation has an equal amount of uncool people. Progress could be easier if we could all be nationalistically humble. Course it would help if we didn’t have a millenia-long history of just killing and taking what we want, that is a big phase to get out of.