Russian youth are going to bring up patriotism: conscious necessity or false concern?
And now, apparently, the Russian authorities are tired of walking in the switchmen, allegedly leading the locomotive of patriotism on the siding, and the authorities decided to make a move that is meant to give impetus to solving this urgent problem. According to one of the ideas, the civil-patriotic education of Russians is called upon to be dealt with by the department with the rather entertaining name “Rospatriotism”, which in turn is a structure of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs. The agency itself is headed by Sergey Belokonev, and Vadim Lobov will be in charge of the direct work on the implementation of projects to instil a sense of patriotism among Russian young people. Mr. Lobov is the Director of Rospatriotcenter and at the same time the Rector of the Moscow Financial and Industrial University Synergy. For several years, Vadim Lobov has been implementing a curriculum based on the basic principles of civic education and patriotism among modern youth: training camps, military courses are held, there are several websites dedicated to stories Russia, the glorious victories of the Russian weapons, meetings with veterans, trips to military units are organized.
According to some data, the new structure "Rospatriotism" will begin active work from next year. At the same time, there is information that the youth affairs agency plans to borrow the most progressive links of the Soviet military-patriotic school to implement educational and educational projects. Such links include the famous sports complex of the TRP - the “Ready for Labor and Defense” program, the famous game “Zarnitsa” and much more.
It is worth recalling that the TRP program, developed in the USSR in the early thirties, was a balanced system of standards and requirements for physical development and the level of preparedness of citizens belonging to different age groups. At the same time, the goal of the TRP system was not only the development of young people in the physical sense of the word, but also preparation for effective work, protection of the Fatherland and the formation of moral character. It should be noted that in the middle of 70-s of the last century, the “Ready for Labor and Defense” system in the USSR managed to fulfill 58 of millions of people. This is more than an impressive figure! What now? Where is the preparation for work, where is the supremacy of the principle of a healthy lifestyle, where is the moral character?
We have to admit that today, literally with each of these provisions, Russian youth have problems. Despite the fact that the number of lessons in physical education at school has grown, the majority of these lessons are absolutely formal. Pupils in their bulk perceive physical education lessons as a kind of misunderstanding in the schedule: at best, they can kick a ball in jeans, at worst - you can ignore the lesson in general - they say, well, who is this physical training teacher? development, speak? Yes, I'd rather spend the time on a new game software in the smartphone or “fly” for cigarettes and a jar of cocktail to the nearest store during the break. I don’t have 18 yet, but the store needs revenue - they will sell anyway ... ”
Of course, not all schoolchildren and students have such thoughts. And in Soviet times there were those who didn’t spit on the “TRP badge on his chest” from the high bell tower. But the modern youth tendency looks painfully negative in terms of seeing its role in public life. Social life itself today is often nothing more than “likes” and advantages on social networks, trolling on forums and almost complete helplessness if you want to solve real problems and problems. Like, why should I decide something myself: let the father decide, the tutor, the director, the head of the administration, the president ... "They will sing the hymn on the school line-up - they have found a clown ... Let the teacher sing, it’s in United Russia!"
“The moral look, say ... Well, well ... Look at the bus stop for the disabled person in 30-degree frost left. So what? And there is nothing for people with disabilities to leave the house in the cold. I would have sat myself in my wheelchair - nothing would have happened ... Eh, it's a pity there is no video in YouTube ... "
This is a kind of quintessence of what can be called the other side of citizenship and a sense of duty. And however disgusting this quintessence may look - it is. She permeated our entire society from young to old. We are ready to rejoice in the misfortune of our neighbors, because this misfortune has passed us by. We are ready to go over each other’s heads, just to achieve a bright consumer future. We are ready to talk about patriotism, but at the same time shout in the queue at the station: “Grandfather, where are you going ahead of everyone! Well, what if the order? Tomorrow I'll buy myself the same ... "
At the same time, many will say: well, that's it, brothers, they have arrived - if the state decided to announce the development of a strategy for educating young people of civic-patriotic feelings, then everything will come down to banal campaigning, the search for unrealizable forms of education, and indeed to one continuous negative. Like, the TRP has come up with something else ... Yes, our children are not Robotsso that someone tries to program them for the right attitude towards the family, the team, the small and large Motherland.
However, in this approach one feels a certain amount of self-isolation and attempts to reduce everything to the ephemeral concept of personal freedom - liberalism. And the majority of people who make attempts to dissociate themselves from public life, which is surprising, more often than others declare the state’s indecision in terms of raising the level of civil-patriotic education. The situation often boils down to the banal "all-pro-kadadizmu": "The government does nothing in terms of educating responsible citizens, the authorities pursue a deliberate policy of destroying the moral character of the people, society is decomposed from the inside, but we are not going to start with ourselves anyway maybe? .. ”And as soon as such a person is offered concrete steps on the part of the state, he is thrown to the other extreme:“ Aha! The state is trying to limit our rights and freedoms! Look, see, create a new structure, as if you can raise patriotism under the lash! Again, all stolen, be sure to steal! We must run! ”
At the end of the material, I would like to state that for the first time in more than a decade 2 in our country, issues of civil-patriotic education of young people are raised not at the level of "blah bla-show", but receive the state legislative base. One may say that the government will not succeed, and that patriotism cannot be fostered by the letter of the law, that new agencies, projects and centers are another corruption mechanism. But such reasoning is more like impetuous and insurmountable pessimism, which is more like a diagnosis.
The new organization plans not only to revive the Soviet positive experience, but also to proceed from modern realities. One of the areas of work chosen popularization of military service. Schoolchildren for a certain time are going to acquaint with everyday life. In addition, support will be provided to military-patriotic and search clubs, youth sports projects, sections. In the near future, the first regional offices of Rospatriotism will be created in Khabarovsk, Kaliningrad and Novosibirsk. It is planned to conduct multi-stage work to attract young people to local history work, work to expand the information field of a historical nature. Huge work will be carried out in educational institutions at various levels.
Obviously, the big problem of the decline of morality in Russian society is difficult to solve overnight with the help of a single agency, but you need to start with something. And this is a start. The main thing is that it does not drown in the wave of mass a priori criticism, does not dissolve by itself, and was supported not only by those in power, but also by the public.
Very much depends on the large multilateral support of the project in this regard. Frankly, I hope that the state initiative will lead to real progress. But it should not be forgotten that the education of patriotism and citizenship is such a thing that it would be nice to start embodying in your family, class, team, not only after instructions from the authorities ...
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