Vladimir Putin plans to expand his youth army, Yunarmia, to one million recruits (Image: Patriot Centre, East2West News)
Express: Putin’s youth army plans to teach ONE MILLION children how to use machine guns
THOUSANDS of Russian orphans as young as eight are to be drafted into Vladimir Putin’s youth army and taught how to use machine guns and throw hand grenades.
The Russian President is planning a rapid expansion of his Yunarmia as he hopes to amass one million young recruits ahead of next year’s 75th anniversary commemorations of the end of World War 2. However critics have slammed the conscription of boys and girls as “immoral” and resembling the Hitler Youth programme. The move coincides with a senior Russian military official’s outburst that children in Russia have become “afraid of machine guns” since the fall of the Soviet Union, a development which he declared as not “normal”.
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WNU Editor: Everyone in Russia knows (or will get to know) how to clean and shoot a machines gun. Nothing new here. But to say that children in Russia have become “afraid of machine guns” since the fall of the Soviet Union .... that is ridiculous. Also teaching young orphans on how to throw hand grenades .... sighhhh .... I know the mentality of the people who think like this, and the miserable lives that they lead. All that I can say is that this mindset is slowly disappearing.On a side note. I shot my first Kalashnikov at 15.
