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I think it’s mildly disturbing when a country feels the need to mind control it’s citizens enough that they start military education from elementary school. I
by Aeolun 3y ago
I think it’s mildly disturbing when a country feels the need to mind control it’s citizens enough that they start military education from elementary school.
I don’t really know if I’ve heard of that happening anywhere else.
- moi2388 3y agoNazi Germany, USSR, Iran, North Korea, Russia, just to name a couple
- Ekaros 3y agoOr does something like regular pledge to a symbol, be it a flag or religious one... Feels like fascism to me...
- Aeolun 3y agoYeah, I completely agree. That’s kinda disturbing too, but to a much lesser degree. There’s a qualitative difference between “be proud of your country” and “we will now prepare to vanquish the enemies of the motherland”
- DontchaKnowit 3y agoWell, germany infamously did this with the Hitler youth.
- Aeolun 3y agoI deliberately left that reference out. It was the one that came to mind though. It’s always the facist states that do it (fair, that’s kinda the whole fascist schtick, but still)
- DontchaKnowit 3y agoWell, after, 2 seconds of cursory research Looks like the societ Union had youth military education programs. Not surprising at all, seeing as I have never heard a satisfying distinction between fascism and communism. What ends up being described is blanket totalitarianism, every time.
- keybored 2y agoTwo seconds of research reinforced my hunch.
- ahazred8ta 2y agoTheir DOSAAF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSAAF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSAAF was a hybrid of Junior ROTC, rifle training, and military sports.