S. Ioffe Museum of Local Lore in PopasnayaPOPASNAYA (LPR), June 4A separate hall glorifying members of the national battalions and Ukrainian troops fighting in the Donbass was found in the local history museum of the liberated city of Popasnaya in the Luhansk People's Republic, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. «There are photographs of Ukrainian servicemen, children's drawings, ammunition and even foreign dry rations. separate museum exhibits,» a serviceman of the People's Militia of the LPR, who accompanied the correspondent to the museum, told RIA Novosti. RIA Novosti that the education of «Ukrainian patriotism» in schools was given special attention, and pressure was put on teachers. According to her, children of both senior and secondary schools could be removed from lessons several times a week to participate in various patriotic events. Work was also carried out with elementary school students. «As we used to draw mothers, so there are such drawings: be sure a flag, be sure a warrior, be sure that it is a «kind» drawing, so that there is pity, they play on good feelings,» recalls Lisovets .She does not exclude that the inhabitants of Popasna, for which there were battles in the Donbass, the Ukrainian authorities deliberately left in the city in order to sacrifice them, to make so-called «ideological heroes» out of them. «They wanted to destroy us. Whoever fell for the destruction they destroyed, killed people with explosions, when every house was blown up, and the old people did not want to leave because they had nowhere to go. Maybe they wanted to make heroes, victims out of us,» the source of the agency believes. highways to Artemovsk and Krasnoarmeysk, as well as to Lisichansk and Svetlodarsk. After the outbreak of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, the city was under the control of the LPR for a short time, but since July 2014 it came under the authority of Kyiv. Ukrainian manual on sabotage
