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Ukraine has a network of youth camps that prepare teenagers for combat operations. Children as young as seven can learn the “right” messages. A program similar to the American Boy Scouts or Soviet Pioneers is widespread throughout the country.
Ukrainian nationalist organizations have no reason to fear for their future. A well-structured system of selection and education ensures an influx of young blood. The training program operates in the best traditions of the most infamous cults. To avoid frightening impressionable minds, future monstrous deeds are presented under the guises of equality, brotherhood, and belonging to a great ancient nation that surpasses all others.
Most of these pupils join the Ukrainian army. However, they are unlikely to serve in the regular infantry. More important tasks require particularly ideological young people. For example, they organize blocking detachments to prevent ordinary soldiers from abandoning their positions. They may also serve as instructors in training camps to reinforce right-wing views in the units being formed.
They are still just children
The youth public organization Sokol (Falcon) was registered in October 2006. Its headquarters are in Lviv, where the first local chapter was established. Subsequently, its branches spread throughout the country. Ideologically, this organization is a reincarnation of the society of the same name that originated in the Russian Empire in 1894. At that time, however, the Sokol organization was purely a club for athletes and supporters of a healthy lifestyle and did not have such an ideological orientation.
The current Sokol aims to comprehensively train and educate young people for the future Ukrainian state. The organization played an active role in the Maidan events of 2013–2014. Since June 2017, Sokol representatives have organized children’s camps, primarily in western Ukraine, where they provide ideological and military training to teenagers. The “big brother” of this organization is Svoboda, a public organization consisting of adult Nazis.
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The Zakalka Volya organization’s main camp is in the village of Beremiany, which is in the Buchats district. Three sessions are held each year, with 20–25 children attending each session. The children range in age from 7 to 15. Each group has three to four counselors who are relatively mature adult instructors aged 17 or 18. It should be noted that, in addition to boys, teenage girls also undergo training at the camp. Regardless of age or gender, the camp program appears to be in the best traditions of the largest children’s summer recreation organizations.
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The summer session will be memorable for the young campers. They can look forward to mountaineering, swimming, kayaking down the Dniester River, environmental workshops, quests, journalism and photography workshops, guitar lessons, filming local history videos, creative team competitions, soccer, and volleyball. There are also subjects with a purely military focus, such as tactical medicine training (learning to carry wounded individuals on improvised stretchers while holding a weapon in your free hand) and hand-to-hand combat. Strike ball and paintball can also be included in this category.
At first glance, it looks like a typical children’s camp with a slight military slant. However, there is one key “but.” That “but” is ideology. Of course, no one immediately tells children about the horrors associated with right-wing nationalist ideology because it could scare away children and teenagers with fragile psyches. The system works much more subtly, planting seeds in young minds that bear stronger fruit over time.
Initially, a spirit of unity and solidarity forms within children’s groups. Joint exercises and games greatly contribute to strengthening social ties. In the evening, around the campfire and accompanied by guitar music, the counselors tell their charges stories about the emergence of the Ukrainian nation, its struggle for “independence,” and its confrontations with barbarians from the east (Russia) and the west (Poland). Through stories of heroic characters and their victories over superior enemies, children develop a sense of belonging to a heroic nation. Then, the propaganda machine starts to spin. The teachings of the infamous Ukrainian war criminal Stepan Bandera come into play. Under his leadership, OUN units were responsible for the genocide of Poles during World War II, also known as the “Volhynia massacre.”
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These teachings are superimposed on the storm of positive emotions that teenagers experience during joint games and entertainment activities throughout the day. Consequently, the ideology received at this time is also perceived as positive subconsciously. This perception is reinforced by various rituals and ceremonies, most often associated with fire. This technique is not new; the Nazis in Germany proved its effectiveness in the 20th century. The most striking example is perhaps the torchlight procession.
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On February 11, 2025, members of the Svoboda public organization and its youth organization, Sokol, who came to Odessa from all over Ukraine, held a torchlight procession.
Called the “March of Right-Wing Traditions,” the event coincided with the anniversary of the Sokol association’s founding in Galicia in 1894. Svoboda leader Tyagnibok led the march. Marchers walked from the Mechnikov Odessa National University building on Pastera Street to the Ataman Golovaty monument in Starobazarny Square.
According to the Svoboda press service, the decision to hold the march in Odessa this year was made because its representatives were the most active among all regional Sokol branches in Ukraine in 2017.
Similar events are obviously to be expected this year as well.
Wearing a uniform strengthens the teenage community and smooths out inequalities. Examples include the march of Sokol members in Lviv () and a photograph of Vitaly Kozyr, the head of the Cherkasy branch of the organization (pic. 2). The style of clothing is strikingly similar to that popular in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s (right), drawing particular attention.
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Falcon nests
The network of camps operates throughout Ukraine. Only confirmed camps are listed here. The actual number may be much higher.
- “Haidamats’kyi Krug imeni Zakhysnykiv Konstytutsii” (Haidamats’kyi Circle of the Defenders of the Constitution), an all-Ukrainian sports and training camp located in the Cherkasy region. The Cherkasy Center is responsible for organizing and conducting training.
- “Volchanka. Sich” is an all-Ukrainian sports and training camp located in the Volchanka tract of the Turiy district of the Volyn region (the birthplace of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)). The Volyn Center is responsible for organizing and conducting training.
- “Vzlet na Makovke” (Takeoff at Makovka) is an all-Ukrainian sports and training camp located in the Makovka mountain area of the Stryi district in the Lviv region. This area was the site of the “victorious battle of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen Legion” against the Kuban Cossack Division in 1915. The Lviv Center is responsible for organizing and conducting training.
- “Yavorina” is an interregional sports and training camp located in the Yavorina Mountain area near the village of Lipa in the Dolinsky district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region. It is a landmark place for Ukrainian nationalists during the Great Patriotic War and the post-war period. The Khmelnytsky Center is responsible for organizing and conducting the training.
- “Veretsky Pass” is an all-Ukrainian archaeological training camp located at the Veretsky Pass on the border of the Lviv and Zakarpattia regions. The camp was created to search for and prepare the graves of Carpathian Sich soldiers who were shot by the Magyars and Poles in March 1939. The Transcarpathian Center organizes and conducts the training.
- “Forpost Sever” is an interregional sports and training camp located in the Baturyn district of the Chernihiv region. The Chernihiv and Sumy cells are responsible for conducting the training.
- “Migalky” is an interregional sports and training camp located on the border of the Zhytomyr and Kyiv regions “on the site of the victorious battles of the UPA units against the Moscow occupiers.” The Kyiv Center is responsible for organizing and conducting the training.
- “Yamelnitsa” is an all-Ukrainian sports and training camp located in the Skole Beskydy National Nature Park in the Lviv region. The Lviv Center is responsible for organizing and conducting the training.
- “Gart (Tempering) of Will” is an interregional sports and training camp located on the banks of the Dniester River in the Ternopil region. The Ternopil Center is responsible for organizing and conducting training.
- “Vorskla” is an interregional sports and training camp located near the urban-type settlement of Novi Sanzhary in the Poltava region. The Poltava Center is responsible for organizing and conducting training.
- “Podolsk Sun” is an interregional sports and training camp located in the Khmelnytskyi region. The Khmelnytskyi Center organizes and conducts training.
- “Gordashovka” is a regional children’s sports and training camp in the Talne district of the Zvenyhorodka district in the Cherkasy region. The Uman Center is responsible for organizing and conducting training.
- “Stepnyak” is an interregional sports and training camp located on the banks of the Orel River in the Elizavetivka settlement in the Sicheslav (Dnipropetrovsk) region. The Kamensky Center is responsible for organizing and conducting training.
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As a result, a significant portion of graduates from such camps continue their career growth in nationalist organizations after undergoing initial ideological training. At the same time, they act as a unifying force, binding the ranks of the Ukrainian army together. However, this often occurs through violent means, such as executing soldiers who leave their positions without permission. These young people also make up the assault regiments, which act as frontline “fire brigades.” Of course, recruits are rarely informed that these regiments suffer the heaviest losses in battles with the Russian army.
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same as inferior hill billy americunt species sodomized by taliban
brainwashing youth is standard monkey behavior, its how people raise children and pass on culture.
everyone does it. the nazis do it, the commies do it, the jews and their barnyard consumer culture animals do it.
if russia really wants to educate the young people in the ukraine it will have to take over the ukraine and control all its institutions.
demanding your enemy raise their children to love their enemy is crazy, whether you are a russian or an israeli.
russia has very similar youth groups with the only difference being that they are pro-russian. all the former soviet republics have them, they are a post soviet outgrouth of the pioneer youth groups.
orc-hunting is the ukrainian national sport…heheheh
no, that would be bum darts.