Pupils of a school in the Petrogradsky district of St. Petersburg were forced to copy from a sheet of ready-made texts of letters to Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine. The mother of one of the high school students told Mediazone about this.
According to her, the schoolchildren were given six different versions of letters, each was asked to rewrite one. In total, about 250 handwritten copies were demanded from the school. In addition to students, teachers also copied letters.
Letters to the military were signed by «class students», it was not necessary to indicate your name there. “Hello, valiant fighters of the Russian Army! <…> Wherever you serve: tank, air, ground forces, we are glad that you serve and defend our Motherland, ”the copy says, which was asked to be copied by the son of a Petersburger.
One of the texts that students were asked to rewrite. Photo: Mediazona.
After the start of the war in Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense and its Yunarmiya children's movement conducted «Letter to a Soldier» lessons in Russian schools, during which schoolchildren were required to write letters to the military. By October, about 250,000 of these had been handed over, the ministry reported. The Zvezda TV channel, owned by the Ministry of Defense, published a report from a Belgorod school where children wrote «triangle letters with Z and V symbols.
Parents of schoolchildren from Krasnodar recalled that their children were required to write letters according to a template, as well as attach a drawing or a verse. For the task in some schools put marks. An activist from Yekaterinburg, Nadezhda Sayfutdinova, said that a teacher called her son to talk after he wrote in a letter to the military: “It is better to die than to become a murderer.”