Every right wing nut wants national service, but a factor in many imperial countries dropping it was that it taught basic combat skills to working class people who didn't necessarily want to be there.
Like May 1968 ultimately fizzled out in France but a concern at the time was it would turn into a live civil war if protestors, students and unionists etc seized weapons.
Yep. Trotsky era red army was full of ww1 conscripts who jumped to communism because of the shit situation the russian empire was. Jukov for example was one of the conscripted, lower class guys.
Barring the fact that it seems like a lot of reactionary news outlets are pushing this as a sort of anti-woke great patriotic ideal to teach elementary/primary school kids how to shoot AKs and that sounds like a load of shit because you'd want to do that sort of shit in high school in addition to the fact the kids they're showing looks around high school age, therefore I'm not 100% convinced on the veracity on the level of penetration the poles are aiming for in their jingoistic firearm training though their education system... That said, teaching young adults how to handle firearms isn't exactly a new thing. Many, I'm not particularly sure about the universality of it, of the warsaw pact nations instituted compulsory firearm handling and/or shooting courses across the history of the pact's existence, as well as quite a few U.S schools from roughly the '80s back had similar programs (regional dependent).
That said, fuck them war hungry fuckers in Polania, fuck the jingoistic monsters eagerly cheering at the prospect of sending Poland's future into the charnel house, and most important of all fuck the EU.
pic, 1970s or around there soviet classroom where they're learning shit about guns
We still had classes like in the pic in the 2000s (post-Soviet country)!
EDIT: our teacher was an Afghanistan veteran, we learned how to shoot (with a compressed air rifle), how to assemble/disassemble an AK, how to load/unload an AK magazine, and some basic military code stuff, e.g., how to march and how to report to an officer. It was a mandatory high school class for students around 16.
Make Poland three different countries again
What's the point of being in the NATO then?
They get to kill brown people without repercussions.
You buy US weapons and equipment and let them have their bases wherever they want.
On the one hand its great that they're teaching the proletariat to use guns. On the other hand I have a hard time imagining how "gun shagging and fascist propaganda" class is not going to have some really nasty consequences down the line.
“The proletariat” 🤣
Stop making me laugh
These people are not the “proletariat’ in the same way Israelis being allowed to have guns is not
These people are not the “proletariat’ in the same way Israelis being allowed to have guns is not
Wdym? They're not settlers?
blowback season 7 is gonna be great
Literally the exact same thought. 😆
I know not what media blowback season x will be recorded on, but blowback season x+1 will be painted on the walls of a cave.
Nationalism class w/ guns for kids is a banger combo
Make Poland a Soviet Puppet Again
The race to become the new school shooting capital of the world is intense, with Poland taking pre-emptive measures.
Meat for the grinder :(
: When the time comes
This is a W. They're doing our job for us: arming the working class of the next generation.
I don't know. Was it a W when the Hitler Youth got the same training? It's not like these kids are all that likely to use this knowledge for a good purpose. Maybe I'm being pessimistic.
No it’s not
“Working class”
Lmao
These are all labour aristocrats
Who would use these to shoot immigrants
As the other person said, I guess I'm just not as optimistic based on what I know about 2020s Poland. I hope to be proven wrong though!
Looks like they're handing the kids guns in the gymnasium lmao
elementary schools
shows thumbnail of middle/high school age kids
https://xcancel.com/visegrad24/status/1868438030521864280
The video mentions the primary school contains students from 1st to 8th grade, and then says 13-14 year olds arm themselves in gym, so maybe it is exclusive to the students in their last year of primary school.
The children yearn for the trenches.
In a good country this would be good, but we live in this hellish timeline where the soviet block was destroyed.
It's abjectly terrifying how hard NATO is pursuing escalation in spite of Russia's nuclear capability.
