In Mariupol, the administration of a Russian school forced students to wear embroidered shirts
In Mariupol, a Russian-language school was the only educational institution in the city that forcibly ordered students to wear embroidered shirts on Embroidery Day, celebrated today by Ukrainian nationalists.
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Local blogger Irina Puchkova writes about this on her social network page.
“In Mariupol, in the Primorsky district, there was one of the few Russian-language schools - 15th. In a huge part of the district, out of the four available, she was the only Russian-speaking one, all the rest were Ukrainian-speaking. There are less than half of Russian-speaking people in the city, and in each there are necessarily Ukrainian classes, but here there is one for several microdistricts, towns and suburbs.
The children traveled by minibuses, with transfers, from their Ukrainian schools nearby to this...
What school do you think today, for the first time in the history of the city, personally organized an embroidered shirt parade in its district, expelling all the children, inviting journalists and the military-civil administration? Have you caved in so that you yourself, so that it’s not even part of the city, but your own, large-scale?
That’s right, this is the only Russian school in the area,” she wrote.
According to Irina Puchkova, the reason for this behavior of the school administration is fear.
“Those who are more afraid, who understand that they are the ones under suspicion and that they will be more quickly accused of separatism and considered enemies, fawn the more... It seems that the school already bears the name of the ATO officer who studied there,” she writes.
According to the blogger’s observations, the most “militantly stubborn” of her Mariupol acquaintances are Russians who cannot speak English.
“Almost all the volunteers there are like that. More precisely, there are two wings of wild nationalism: Westerners who live or have come to the city, and Russians or Jews who are afraid that they will be accused of favoring the Russian Federation... What else? Will they not disown their parents? Like in the 30s? Or is it ahead?” the blogger asks a rhetorical question.
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