Pro-War Propaganda in Russian Kindergartens Likely to Have Long-Lasting Negative Consequences, Arkhipova Says

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Feb. 7 – Many Russian parents believe that their children now being subject to pro-war propaganda in kindergartens will not be affected for very long and will adopt radically different positions when they are older, Aleksandr Arkhipova says; but a classic study of the impact of anti-Semitic propaganda in Nazi schools suggests otherwise.
    The independent Russian anthropologist says that study (Nico Voigtländer a,b,c,1 and Hans-Joachim Voth, “Nazi indoctrination and anti-Semitic beliefs in Germany,” PNAS 112:26 (June 2015):7931-7036 at pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1414822112) shows that Germans who were subjected to anti-Semitic messaging in schools in Nazi times were far more likely to be anti-Semitic decades later than those born earlier or later (t.me/anthro_fun/3294 reposted at echofm.online/opinions/effekt-kolobka-imeet-li-propaganda-v-detskih-sadah-daleko-idushhie-posledstviya).
    That study’s finding, the author of the Fun Anthropology telegram channel says, strongly suggests that the same pattern will hold with Russian children now being subjected to pro-war propaganda will remain more pro-war than those older or younger than them and form an important reservoir of support of pro-war Kremlin policy makers long into the future.