cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/4931252

Archived version

Here you can see a trailer (3 min, scroll to the bottom of the page)

More about the film and upcoming events to watch across the globe are on the documentary's website: https://www.childreninthefire.com/

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Children in the Fire [is] a new documentary directed by Evgeny Afineevsky, a Russian-born, US-based film-maker whose previous works include Cries from Syria, about the Syrian civil war, and the Oscar-nominated Winter on Fire, which covered the 2013-14 Euromaidan protests in Ukraine. Along with horrifying stories of abduction and forced adoption, the new film also features children who have endured extensive burns, injuries and amputations since February 2022.

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The film includes footage of Putin stating that, “Wars are not won by generals, but rather by schoolteachers and priests.”

“He is saying that re-education is the key element of winning the war. And it applies not only to Ukrainian kids; it applies to the entirety of Russia. He is trying to create a sort of Hitler Youth movement.”

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