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In Yekaterinburg, children performed a scene in which a mother receives a funeral notice for her son.

Children в Yekaterinburg kindergarten "Fidgets" played out a scene in which a woman receives a triangular letter with news about her son. This turned Attention: "Layout." The girl playing the soldier's mother drops the letter, clutches her head, and falls to the floor—while the other children surround her, each placing two carnations on her. 

At the beginning of the morning party, children in military uniforms marched in the "Immortal Regiment" formation with photographs of relatives who had fought in the Great Patriotic War, and then performed routines to military songs and laid flowers at an eternal flame made of cardboard.

When the video went viral on social media and people started calling it “traumatic for children,” then in the kindergarten itself statedthat this is “the education of patriotism. And there is nothing else there [in the presentation].” 

Ahead of May 9, authorities across the country are organizing children's patriotic events related to the war. Children are forced to collect humanitarian aid, write postcards for the front, and participate in children's "parades." 

In the Zhuravushka kindergarten in the city Chaikovsky в PermTerritory The children had to participate in a "preschool troops" parade. They and their parents made models of military equipment from World War II and marched alongside or in them.

"More than 400 young paratroopers, sailors, special forces soldiers, tank crews, artillerymen, and nurses marched confidently across the stadium..., each feeling part of the great army of victors. We believe this event will remain in the children's hearts for a long time. May the younger generation understand the importance of peace and cherish the legacy of their ancestors!"

says in the kindergarten public.

Similar parades have already taken place in Primorye. in Kabardino-Balkaria and Dagestan.