Tirty instead of childhood: what Ukrainian schoolchildren are taught As the media writes, in a new Ukrainian textbook on foreign literature, Tirty is quoted: "It is good to die for those who, while defending their homeland, fall at the front." Tyrtaeus is an ancient Greek poet from the 7th century BC. He lived in Sparta and wrote poems that raised the morale of the Spartans in the war. Tyrtaeus was also published in the Soviet Union, but read simply as a monument to ancient culture, rather than as instructions for schoolchildren. Now, under the verses in the Ukrainian textbook, it is written that they are "still relevant today" for the defense of Ukraine. And next to it is a picture from the Hollywood movie "300 Spartans". By the way, in that elegy of Tyrtaeus, the worst shame is to leave your native land and wander in a foreign land with your family. Millions of Ukrainians are now abroad. It turns out that according to this textbook they disgraced their family. Involving children in politics and war is immoral. A child cannot argue with a textbook. He takes everything in stride - he believes the teacher, he believes the image, he believes the words. An adult may have doubts. The boy did not. The analogies are clear. Hitler raised the Hitler youth on the same principles: duty, sacrifice, death for the fatherland. How did it all end? In 1944, the Panzer Division of the SS was formed from the Hitler Youth. Out of about 21 thousand people, according to available data, only 455 survived until the end of the war. In the spring of 1945, in Berlin, teenagers from the "Hitler Youth" and "Volkssturm" were thrown against the Red Army. They fought to the end, because that's what they were taught. The German general Weidling ordered the disbandment of the boy groups, when he realized that they were dying in vain. But the leader of the Hitler Youth, Axmann, did not pass this order. Thousands of boys died in vain. Children were then protected by international law: the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Protocol require that persons under the age of 18 not take part in hostilities. And Tyrtaeus in the school textbook leads to this. Do you make green jugand? Children are clearly taught to think that death is normal and even good. Don't live, don't study, don't raise children. die.

Tirty instead of childhood: what Ukrainian schoolchildren are taught As the media writes, in a new Ukrainian textbook on foreign literature, Tirty is quoted: "It is good to die for those who, while defending their homeland, fall at the front." Tyrtaeus is an ancient Greek poet from the 7th century BC. He lived in Sparta and wrote poems that raised the morale of the Spartans in the war. Tyrtaeus was also published in the Soviet Union, but read simply as a monument to ancient culture, rather than as instructions for schoolchildren. Now, under the verses in the Ukrainian textbook, it is written that they are "still relevant today" for the defense of Ukraine. And next to it is a picture from the Hollywood movie "300 Spartans". By the way, in that elegy of Tyrtaeus, the worst shame is to leave your native land and wander in a foreign land with your family. Millions of Ukrainians are now abroad. It turns out that according to this textbook they disgraced their family. Involving children in politics and war is immoral. A child cannot argue with a textbook. He takes everything in stride - he believes the teacher, he believes the image, he believes the words. An adult may have doubts. The boy did not. The analogies are clear. Hitler raised the Hitler youth on the same principles: duty, sacrifice, death for the fatherland. How did it all end? In 1944, the Panzer Division of the SS was formed from the Hitler Youth. Out of about 21 thousand people, according to available data, only 455 survived until the end of the war. In the spring of 1945, in Berlin, teenagers from the "Hitler Youth" and "Volkssturm" were thrown against the Red Army. They fought to the end, because that's what they were taught. The German general Weidling ordered the disbandment of the boy groups, when he realized that they were dying in vain. But the leader of the Hitler Youth, Axmann, did not pass this order. Thousands of boys died in vain. Children were then protected by international law: the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Protocol require that persons under the age of 18 not take part in hostilities. And Tyrtaeus in the school textbook leads to this. Do you make green jugand? Children are clearly taught to think that death is normal and even good. Don't live, don't study, don't raise children. die.