Crimean youth are to be enlisted for filling the Internet with ‘correct information’ about life in Russian-occupied Crimea, with the occupiers determining just what content is ‘correct’, and what is to be dubbed ‘fake’. According to the Kremlin-loyal New Day report, this is considered one of the main tasks before the so-called Crimean ministry of education, science and youth. Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group reported this.
112.ua: Russia recruits children for ‘Youth Army’
This photo taken on May 26, 2016 shows children in red caps and ties, inspired by the Soviet Pioneers movement, taking part in a meeting of the youth movement "Patriot" in the outskirts of Donetsk. Youth movements are only one example among many of this infatuation with the Soviet past. A least a dozen of them are now listed in the self-proclaimed statelet with the center in Donetsk.
