‘Propaganda lessons for everyone’: Russia’s wartime curriculum exposed

Pavel Talankin risked Russia's wrath by secretly sharing footage of a new wartime education programme with a US filmmaker for their documentary, Mr. Nobody Against Putin [Courtesy: Frantisek Svatos]

In Pavel Talankin’s film, Mr. Nobody Against Putin, one scene depicts Russian schoolteachers struggling to explain the reasons for Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine to their pupils, early on in the war.

One cannot say “denazification”, a word the Kremlin often uses to justify its onslaught. Later, though, a history teacher displays no hesitation.