Covid-paranoid Before his face-to-face brainwashing meeting yesterday in Kaliningrad, Vladimir Putin ordered pupils to be quarantined for two weeks.
The Russian leader emphasised the significance of imparting to the chosen high IQ students a version of history that had been approved by the Kremlin.
The president, who has been dogged by rumours of a number of diseases in recent years, took special steps to avoid contracting Covid this month as cases began to rise once again in Russia.
Putin lectured the youngsters on the need of discipline and confused them with a joke about a “rubber bum” in addition to giving them a twisted history lesson in which he suggested that Russia and Ukraine should become one nation.
He advised the accomplished nine to twelve-year-old kids, saying, “You need to be driven to realise your objective”.
Of course there is also hard effort. Together, these things are crucial.
“Working hard is in and of itself a talent.” It’s not simply a rubber bum, pardon me.
To drive oneself to work and be able to do it effectively takes ability.
In a video, he can be seen chuckling as he says “rubber bum” during a session that is intended to be about “vital” subjects for kids.
Putin gave them a speech on the value of discipline before confusing the kids with a joke about a “rubber bum.”
His youthful, bewildered audience kept mute, but his statements caused confusion online.
God forbid, is this what he’s promoting to schoolchildren at the “Speak about the Important” session in Kaliningrad, remarked journalist Elena Rykovtseva. What type of confusion dwells therein? Someone someone treat this president!
Fyodor Krashennikov, a political scholar, referred to Putin as “Mr. Rubber Bum.”
Someone another asked, “What was it for? In what sense did he say that? What is the rubber bum’s relationship to the topic at hand? Please provide more details.
According to one explanation, he confused his knowledge of Soviet history and was making a reference to the moniker given to renowned Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov, a monstrous Bolshevik who personally approved more lists of mass executions than Stalin.
He earned the nickname “Stone Arse” during the Stalin era for his propensity to sit at his desk for 20 continuous hours.
The Soviet Union’s founder Lenin, however, really gave him the nickname “Iron A**e,” Molotov pedantically corrected his fellow soldiers.
I can’t claim I am the most disciplined, Putin said during the discussion.
Putin takes photos with students at an open class called “Talking About What Matters.”
It is obvious that I need to improve myself. It takes discipline to succeed. Discipline alone, however, is insufficient.
Putin expanded the scope of the conflict and declared his desire to retake the areas that he believed to be historically Russian elsewhere in the indoctrination session.
He described the Donbas as “historical regions” of Russia and said, “They began establishing an anti-Russian enclave on the territory of present-day Ukraine that is endangering our nation.”
As a result, “our soldiers fighting there are protecting both the people of Donbas and Russia itself.”
During a one-hour question-and-answer session, Putin said that he was astonished to learn that pupils in east Ukraine were unaware that their nation had once been a member of the Soviet Union alongside Russia and that rectifying the record was an important duty.
Children in the Russian-occupied Donbas ‘don’t know that the bridge to Crimea exists,’ according to Sergey Sergeyevich Kravtsov, Russian Minister of Education, and ‘didn’t even realise that Ukraine and Russia were part of a unified nation,’ he said.
Putin referred to the protest wave that ousted Ukraine’s pro-Russian president in 2014 as a “coup.”
In a televised interview that bordered on uncomfortable as a series of kids sought to shake his hand, Putin remarked, “Everyone assumes that some sort of attack is coming from the Russian side today.”
However, nobody is aware of the fact that after the coup in 2014, people of Donetsk, a significant portion of Luhansk, and Crimea did not want to recognise the coup, according to Putin. They were the target of an eight-year conflict that was initiated.
They started to establish an anti-Russian enclave on the land of what is now Ukraine, he continued, endangering our nation.
Therefore, our soldiers who are engaged in battle there are defending both Russia and the people of the Donbas area.
It goes without saying that society should support this fully; it is crucial. from children. The young men battling there put their lives in danger.
Many of them pass away. Therefore, they must comprehend why they are risking their lives, and this is crucial: for Russia and for the residents of the Donbas area.
Russia captured and annexed Crimea shortly after President Viktor Yanukovych left Kyiv, and it also supported insurgents who were successful in seizing control of some of Luhansk and Donetsk in east Ukraine.
The claim that Russian-speaking people have been persecuted is rejected by Kiev and its supporters as Moscow using it as a flimsy justification to attempt to annex more of Ukraine and assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Putin emphasised the significance of teaching the Moscow-approved curriculum in schools in Russia and in the Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine, which primarily denies Ukraine’s sovereignty and its history as an independent country since 1991.
Since invading Ukraine, the Kremlin has pushed for more patriotism in schools; starting on Thursday, all students begin the week with a ritual that involves raising the flag and singing the national song.
Putin oversaw a board meeting for a brand-new youth organisation established by the government that was inspired by the Pioneers and Komsomol, the Communist Party’s youth wings from the Soviet period.
The still-unnamed organisation is the most recent effort to create a national pro-Kremlin youth movement.
Previous iterations include the now-defunct “Nashi” (also known as “Our People”), which peaked in the 2000s with more than 100,000 members.
Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, warned Moldova on Thursday that jeopardising the safety of Russian soldiers stationed in Transdniestria run the danger of inciting a military conflict with Moscow.
Since the beginning of the 1990s, when pro-Russian separatists wrested the majority of the region from Moldovan control through an armed conflict, Russia has maintained peacekeeping forces in Transdniestria.
The Chisinau administration said that it will call the acting Russian ambassador to explain its stance while reiterating its commitment to a peaceful debate about the future of the area.
Moldova wants Moscow to evacuate its soldiers, despite the fact that Russia claims its army is there to uphold peace and stability.
Everyone has to be aware that, as was the case in South Ossetia when our peacekeepers were assaulted by (former Georgian President Mikheil) Saakashvili, any action that endangers the safety of our forces (in Transdniestria) will be seen by international law as an attack on Russia.
A five-day battle broke out in 2008 as a consequence of the event, during which Russian soldiers captured many Georgian cities. Shortly after, Moscow recognised South Ossetia and Abkhazia as separate Georgian territories.
A series of random assaults were reported in Transdniestria in April, which is strongly dependent on Moscow for funding. This increased tensions that were already high due to Russia’s participation in Moldova’s neighbouring Ukraine.
According to Daniel Voda, a spokesperson for the Moldovan foreign ministry, all minority’ rights, including those of Russian speakers, are upheld.
“Chisinau continues to demand on Russia to remove its forces stationed illegitimately on our territory and to fully commit to a peaceful dialogue in (Transdniestria).” Any insinuation of a different strategy is false, he tweeted.
He said that acting Russian ambassador was being summoned by foreign minister Nicu Popescu in order to “clarify the above.”