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Fáilte Abhaile 🏴 “a nod’s as guid as a wink tae a blind horse”
ta be aff yer heid helps
Joined Nov 2017
Belarus state TV released a propaganda video featuring these ‘military and patriotic clubs’ prepared by the Interior Ministry’s press service. The 10-minute movie demonstrates the training of minors with arms and unarmed combat fighting. It also refers to such clubs as a ‘school of life’ and a ‘second family’ for children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXD2PBoPAhs
The concluding song featured in the video says, ‘We serve our Motherland and flag until the end’.
This trend opens the gates for Russkiy Mir ideology to enter the school curricula of Belarusian schoolchildren and students
since 2021, Belarusian authorities have established dozens of so-called ‘military and patriotic clubs’ for children.
Beyond the Russian church’s influence over Belarusian schoolchildren, Moscow wields an even stronger tool in the form of mandatory school textbooks.
In May 2024, Putin’s advisor Vladimir Medinsky, a former Russian minister of culture and co-chair of the Russia-Belarus Historical Commission, stated(opens in a new tab) that the teaching of history in all types of educational institutions in Belarus and Russia should be aligned.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240516140644/https:/tass.ru/obschestvo/20818979
Recently, the Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in Belarus has greatly expanded its access to Belarusian minors via public schools
The ideological impact of the Russian Orthodox Church over Belarusian minors is poised to increase thanks to recently revised legislation which enables monasteries to set up orphanages
/nosanitize
https://web.archive.org/web/20240511040256/https:/pravo.by/document/?guid=12551&p0=W22441535
Although the law speaks of ‘monasteries’ generally, there is no doubt that Orthodox establishments will be privileged over others
The leading university for teachers, Belarusian State Pedagogical University, wrote(opens in a new tab) that following the movie screening, ‘[T]rainee teachers analysed the reasons which pushed teenagers to become members of a terrorist cell, and discussed their fate.
The paranoia seemed to have spread as illustrated in this recent report of KGB arresting three school children doing ordinary chemical experiments but labeled by some ‘terrorism’.
The film did not provide conclusive evidence for these strong accusations.
See similar reports about the presumed role of Belarus KGB in framing the teenagers.
the weeks that followed, authorities instructed schools, colleges, and universities throughout the country to organise public screenings of the movie. The video’s 45-minute length was apparently not accidental because it is the duration of a class in secondary school.
Belarus: the indoctrination of minors is rising in scale and taking on new forms
late April 2024, the Belarusian state ONT TV channel released a propaganda movie titled, ‘Children at Gunpoint: Recruited by the Enemy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ivAqNnSPDE
This piece portrayed a few Belarusian teenagers with anarchist views as terrorist cell members who were planning deadly attacks under the supervision of Ukrainian actors.
@Render oopsie oups, nous avons fait une erreur
These stories are strategically amplified across platforms to instil a false sense of urgency among journalists and fact-checkers.
Additionally, the operation involves impersonating legitimate Western media and individuals and linking false narratives to real-world events to enhance their credibility.
Over 800 organisations were targeted via a network of fake accounts on X, demonstrating clear markers of coordinated inauthentic behaviour. Despite these indicators, X has consistently failed to curb the network’s activities, allowing many of these assets to remain active. A key tactic, termed “content amalgamation,” involves blending various content types to create cohesive, multi-layered stories.
#OperationOverload uncovered a concerted effort to target fact-checkers, newsrooms, and researchers worldwide, depleting their resources and exploiting credible information ecosystems to propagate the Kremlin’s political agenda
The operation’s tactics include flooding media organisations with anonymous emails containing links to fabricated content and anti-Ukraine narratives, with a particular focus on France and Germany.
@LnzyHou i applaud your son for doing they things - not sure about beat at own game though
I watch, read, a lot of stuff from people, outlets, I don't agree with, I totally get where your son is coming from, to understand we have to consume others points and views - it really is what true democracy is about reaching a middle ground after all - its not just for mocking purposes
I also read the Bible so I could challenge a "priest" at a residential School - I got banned from the chapel lol
What is the doppelganger operation?
Short thread: September 27, 2022
Doppelganger – Media clones serving Russian propaganda
The Doppelganger operation is a quintessential case study of a community-driven, open-source investigation, illustrating how media, civil society organisations (CSOs), platforms, and authorities collaboratively counteract foreign influence and misinformation (FIMI) campaigns
Assessing effectiveness: responses to the Doppelganger operation
@process 😂😂😂
Well now Brian owes me a mouthful of coffee 😆
@ceorl 😁 thanks & 😊 thanks :) ❤️
Oh I'll be here till the last order bell tolls and even then I'll be asking for a "lock in' 😂😂 no fear of me leaving on a whim 😉
@ceorl users can block others to their heart content I personally couldn't care who blocks me
That said it becomes questionable when I started to notice a vast majority of users have blocked me, when I see conversions and the thread stops when scrolling up to see initial posts or comments in the thread and tap on a users profile I can see I'm blocked by initial poster or user commenting in thread, that makes me wonder especially when some I didn't even know existed 😆 mute is better though lol
@LnzyHou one thing is to stop being so rapped up in things we know little to nothing about and start educating ourselves more and reading things that will take us outside our comfort zone and accept what we knew was wrong
People need to learn that just because a platform, media outlets, is right/left leaning it doesn't mean everything on the platform, media outlets, is false/wrong, or misinformation, while understanding it just might well be < open mind and never full commit 😉 research also
If groups of people block others they don't agree with that group will be surrounded by "yes men" their social media experience will be nothing more than an echo-chamber
Loadsa things I see I don't agree with but one thing I don't want is to block them just for that, which I think I lot on here have been doing, I also think some are telling others to block others that's just a hunch - cliques get cliquey after all
Anyhooooo 'skol" me needs caffeine
And sadly a lot on CoSo has fallen into that category of being mislead and spreading fake things around - most of them have already blocked me - as well as talking points that are clear propaganda they have become useful idiots - and while most have me blocked a few remain that I can see who keep spreading the same falsehoods, almost posting then daily, and things that have been debunked they don't care about truth
Sad but true it has been one reason I've been a little more quieter
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Fáilte Abhaile 🏴 “a nod’s as guid as a wink tae a blind horse”
ta be aff yer heid helps
Joined Nov 2017