rump Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Russian children "have played with Leopards enough"http://www.rferl.org/content/rogozin_says_russias_kids_should_play_with_russian_made_toy_guns_and_tanks/24471699.html- Rump 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueSnake79 Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 lol, well I guess if it was American kids playing with Russian tanks we would say WTF too. We seem to be okay with them playing with chinese made versions of everything though...Ordering them to stop and make something else, now that's going too far. I guess they will go to camps, or jail if they don't. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma6584 Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Now is the chance for Esim to get some business from Russian Federation. Perhaps a contract with Russian Ministry of Defense for crewable vehicles like BMP-2, BMP-3, T-80 etc. Then those kids will play with Russian toys.:biggrin: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanPatrick Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Maybe a "Steel Beasts Pro RU" with Russian-only playable vehicles? :biggrin: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brun Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Maybe push an idea to have it mandatory for Russian children to use Russian equipment with pro pe in schools. Students must become proficient to graduate past 6th grade. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKM Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Back in "the day", if you wanted to drive motorcycles, for example, you had to join a DOSAAF club to do so and there was a pretty good chance that upon conscription, you'd end up as a motorcycle dispatch rider or recce troop. Junior high / high school level students (by our standards) would be introduced to the AK early, learn basic maintenance and how to handle it. Whether or not there was any live fire training I don't know. It was a mandatory course. It's a logical step for Tsar Vladimir Vladimirovich to take. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pakenko Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 I remember it that te regime was triyng a lot to raise the kids in the way they could and would fight one day. It was off course presented as defense against imperialists.In Czechoslovakia we all had to be in the pioneer league at the age of 7, then in the socialist youth league (similar to Komsomol) at the age of 15. Paramilitary youth organisation was called Svazarm and was rather oriented at all kind of technical sports than paramilitary activities. Off course the possibility of military use of the skills gained there was obvious.As "pioneer" I have been in an young border watchmen troop and we have learned to handle the vz. 58 as early as at the age of ten. Such troops have been usual in the villages close to Austrian and German borders, aka the Iron Curtain. No live firing, however, only blind shots, but with the regular gear and under the supervisoion of the border watchmen troops. We considered it a lot of fun and I guess in Russia it must have been similar. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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