An online backlash has hit Russia‘s bid to indoctrinate schoolgirls to fight for Vladimir Putin.
Most of the country’s propaganda war has been aimed at boys, but now it is switching to girls.
An example is in Primorsky region where for the first time schoolgirls aged 15 and 16 are inducted in ‘military-patriotic education’.
In neighbouring Belarus, beauty pageant contestants were recruited to ‘inspire’ girls and women to join up and fight for Putin-ally and vote-rigging dictator Alexander Lukashenko.
In Primorsky – in the far eats of Russia – some 75 schoolgirls were trained in military ‘basics’ including drilling, tactical, fire and physical training, and instruction in radiation, chemical and biological protection.
Miss Belarus beauty pageant contestants visit a military training ground to ‘inspire’ girls and women to join up and fight for dictator Alexander Lukashenko.
The contestants posed proudly during the PR stunt designed to inspire young women and girls to…