1/ Russian schoolchildren in the Moscow region have been treated to a hands-on exhibition of military medicine, including amputated limbs and a blood-covered mannequin depicting a man with a mortar bomb embedded in his chest. ⬇️
2/ The 'Not the Norm' Telegram channel reports on a recent educational visit by children from Sosnovy Bor near Moscow to the 'Choice' youth centre, for a so-called 'Courage' lesson.
After watching the Russian singer Shaman's patriotic song 'Let's Rise', the children toured the centre's Hall of Military Glory – a survivor of the Soviet Union's programme of military-patriotic education – before going on to see a recreation of the Kolomna Military Hospital.
3/ Here they dressed in mock surgical uniforms where they "were greeted by bloody mannequins imitating the work of surgeons, amputated limbs, a model of a wounded man with a shell in his chest, and various objects extracted from the bodies of military personnel, which were collected by surgeon N.K. Mitropolsky. in 1941-1945."
According to the centre's youth work specialist, "Visiting the interactive left a huge impression".
4/ Such visits are carried out as part of the Russian government's programme of patriotic indoctrination of children. This has seen, among other things, children practicing trench warfare, unarmed combat, laying mines, using weapons and applying field dressings. /end
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