After Russia invaded Ukraine, Pasha Talankin found himself teaching propaganda to students. He filmed it all, until he was forced to flee.
This year a documentary filmed at a school in Russia, Mr. Nobody Against Putin, won an Academy Award.
Its hero? A Russian primary school teacher, Pasha Talankin.
After Russia invaded Ukraine, Talankin found himself trapped in the job of teaching propaganda to students.
He filmed it all, until he was forced to flee the country. But what he captured offers a rare glimpse into Putin’s Russia, and the classroom propaganda program indoctrinating Russian kids.
Today, Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov, who also fled and lives in exile in London, on how the Kremlin is indoctrinating kids, Putin’s plan to re-write history … and Russians – are they buying it?
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