Russian children will be taught how to use a Kalashnikov assault rifle and F-1 and RGD-5 hand grenades. The deputies are dissatisfied that those mobilized in the Russian Federation do not have experience in combat training, so they decided to train potential soldiers from school.
The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation is developing a training course for initial military training, which they intend to implement in schools and colleges. This is reported by the Russian agency TASS.
“At the moment, the development of a training course for air defense systems is organized within the time allotted by the instruction for training citizens with basic knowledge in the field of defense in educational organizations,” said Deputy Minister of Education Tetyana Vasilieva.
According to her, military training in institutions of secondary and professional education is allocated 35 hours over five days.
The official clarifies that the mandatory part “Basics of life safety” includes modules with questions about initial military training. In October, the Ministry of Education also planned to add military and medical training to the OSH course. Schoolchildren of the 10th and 11th grades want to be told how to handle a Kalashnikov assault rifle or F-1 and RGD-5 hand grenades.
The Ministry of Defense of Russia, for its part, also supported the introduction of the PVP training course in schools and vocational schools. First Deputy Minister Valery Gerasimov believes that 140 hours should be allocated to the subject and taught during the last two years of study.
They want to prepare Russian children for war from school
From schoolchildren to soldiers
All factions of the Russian parliament are ready to support the initiative. Deputies believe that only people with real combat experience should be allowed to teach PVP.
According to Serhii Myronov, head of the “Just Russia — For the Truth” faction, the introduction of lessons on military training into the school discipline will allow solving several problems at once. Thus, in his opinion, the war in Ukraine showed that those mobilized in the Russian Federation do not have enough experience to participate in combat operations.
“With the start of a special military operation [a full-scale war in Ukraine], this issue has become particularly acute. The introduction of such a subject in schools will allow citizens to be systematically prepared for a possible confrontation with the enemy,” he commented to journalists.
According to him, not only technical training is important, but also psychological training.
Also, Serhii Mironov is sure that the introduction of such courses will allow employment of “tens of thousands of people” with experience in combat operations.
As the journalists write, the initiative to return the lessons of primary military training to the Russian school curriculum comes from State Duma deputies Yan Lantratov and Volodymyr Pavlov.
