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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    • Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.comEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      Because associated independent preindustrial farms can’t face invasion from industrialized nations. Leaving the farmers in the past would have been the death of them. Remember: the USA, France, Poland, Japan, Greece, Estonia, Romania, Serbia and Italy invaded the RSFSR during the Russian Civil War for the sin of being communist. Stalin famously predicted the Nazi invasion 10 years in advance:

      We are 50–100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they crush us.

      -Stalin, 1931, talking about the industrialization of the Soviet Union.