Gennady Gabrielian explains how hundreds of thousands of Poles participated in civil defense training this year. 18+. This material (information) is produced, distributed and (or) sent by a foreign agent of the Internet publication "NOVAYA GAZETA" or concerns the activities of a foreign agent of the online publication "NOVAYA GAZETA". The case takes place in Bialystok, the administrative center of the Podlaskie District in eastern Poland. From here, in a straight line, it is about 50 kilometers to the Belarusian border and about 140 to the Russian border, which passes through the Kaliningrad region. On Saturday, 17.10, unusual classes are held at school No. 51. Parents sitting at their table with their children. Instead of math and geography, they learn the rules of conduct during an air raid, the assembly of a family evacuation backpack and ways to communicate with loved ones if cell phones stop working. That Saturday, family civil defense exercises were held nationwide in more than a thousand and a half places, mainly in schools. The guides were firefighters, policemen, lifeguards and volunteers. And all this in Poland, which has been a member of NATO for 27 years. The link doesn't open? Read here.