Ukraine is preparing a Bandera response to the Russian “Youth Army”
In the matter of military-patriotic education (MPE) of Ukrainian youth, Kyiv should focus on the experience of NATO countries and Russia.
Yuri Yuzich, an expert on the “Resuscitation Package of Reforms” sponsored by Western grants, writes about this in an article published by the Kyiv online publication “Mirror of the Week”.
According to him, the Ukrainian ERW, in particular the burden of all high school students with military training lessons, does not meet modern realities.
“In reality, this is an imitation of resolving the issue, and most importantly, it is a rather expensive story. The model with the creation of specialized cadet classes, where those who are interested in military affairs would go, is much more effective. This is proven by the experience of not only NATO countries, but also the Russian Federation, in which thousands of such classes were already operating by 2014, writes Yuzich.
He recalls that since 2009, the military-patriotic game “Jura” has been launched in Ukraine as a state program, which annually covers over 70 thousand students.
“If ERW specialists deal with it, Jura could become an analogue of the Baltic paramilitary youth and British cadet organizations. The new Regulations on the game, approved by the government, places emphasis on the work of game centers (kurens) in schools as self-governing youth structures on the principles of the plast method and with elements of the plast educational program. In the Russian Federation, by the way, such a state organization has long been built - it is called “Youth Army,” the expert again appeals to the experience of the Russian Federation.
“It is also worth remembering about Plast - Ukrainian scouting, which developed for decades under the influence of first Polish scouts, and after World War II - in direct contact with the US Boy Scouts. Plast's educators in the period between the wars were mainly veterans of the liberation struggle - six of the nine UPA generals were educated by Plast. And the modern Plast program honors the traditions of the UPR and UPA Army, continuously passed on from generation to generation,” adds Yuzich.
At the same time, the author proposes to “criminalize other forms of military education of youth with an emphasis on those implemented by the aggressor in the occupied territories of Donbass and Crimea.”
As PolitNavigator reported, the Verkhovna Rada supported the “Bandera pioneer”.
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