| Tango01 | 21 Mar 2019 12:13 p.m. PST |
"THOUSANDS of Russian orphans as young as eight are to be drafted into Vladimir Putin's youth army and taught how to use machine guns and throw hand grenades. The Russian President is planning a rapid expansion of his Yunarmia as he hopes to amass one million young recruits ahead of next year's 75th anniversary commemorations of the end of World War 2. However critics have slammed the conscription of boys and girls as "immoral" and resembling the Hitler Youth programme. The move coincides with a senior Russian military official's outburst that children in Russia have become "afraid of machine guns" since the fall of the Soviet Union, a development which he declared as not "normal"…."
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Oberlindes Sol LIC  | 21 Mar 2019 1:11 p.m. PST |
It may sound odd to us as adults, but when we were children, we probably weren't afraid of machine guns. My friends and I overran machine gun nests all the time when we played army. You probably did, too. Even now, I'm not actually afraid of guns. Bullets, a little. Reckless idiots, criminals, terrorists, and most psychotics with guns, definitely. |
| skippy0001 | 21 Mar 2019 3:54 p.m. PST |
Interesting if his new cadre of militia turn out to be the core of resistance against him. |
| Tgunner | 21 Mar 2019 5:04 p.m. PST |
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| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 21 Mar 2019 5:42 p.m. PST |
Notwithstanding Putin, this is a good way to keep the wayward youths and orphans of Russia from turning into punks and hooligans by giving them purpose and direction in their lives. Also, like my dad would say it "builds character." Go ahead and rip me if you want, but you know I'm right. |
| Barin1 | 22 Mar 2019 12:02 a.m. PST |
It is overblown as always, but they do have the plans to restore a structure, similar what we had back in Soviet times. At that time, pioneer organization was holding "Zarnitsa" military playing – a kind of a drill for children. At school we were shooting with pneumatic and small calibre rifles, were learning how to use compass, and on what side of a tree the moss grows. After 16 we were learning how to assemble/maintain AK and I was able to have a couple of live ammo shooting before I was drafted into real army.
Not sure if it will affect your position ob domestic/local affairs – see all bloody conflicts, started after 1991 – all of their participants went through this system, they new how to shoot, the question would always be where you gun will be pointing.
I'm sure that some parents and children might be against any military training – and it should be their right. If alternative service is still an option, I'm fine with this idea. |
| Tango01 | 22 Mar 2019 11:41 a.m. PST |
Remember me what Hitler Jügens did…. Amicalement
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| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 22 Mar 2019 11:52 a.m. PST |
Kid on a bike with a panzerfauste can be dangerous. |
 miniMo | 22 Mar 2019 6:31 p.m. PST |
Notwithstanding "builds character", sounds like they'll wind up with a lot of punks and hooligans who know how to fire machine guns and throw hand grenades. |
| Tango01 | 23 Mar 2019 12:03 p.m. PST |
Maybe farming… music… any kind of art… carpenters… etc better than weapons…
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| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 23 Mar 2019 9:50 p.m. PST |
Notwithstanding "builds character", sounds like they'll wind up with a lot of punks and hooligans who know how to fire machine guns and throw hand grenades. Better to have trained and disciplined punks and hooligans serve in the Russian army than to lead lives of crime and become a burden on society when they grow up. It's brilliant if you think about it because it "kills two birds with one stone": (1) it could mitigate any manpower shortfalls in the army given Russia's declining population problem and (2) these orphans can be directed to serve the state rather than be a drain on society. You may not like it but deep down you know I'm right. |
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