The Putin forces are using many levels of pressure to force children in occupied Ukraine to study a brainwashing curriculum, and force teachers to teach it.

When people don't want the pain of resisting oppression, they tend to justify collaborating with it by claiming that by participating they can soften the oppression. In principle, that can be true. In practice, it is usually self-delusion. You can pretend you are resisting in a subtle way, while actually doing exactly what the oppressor wants.

Collaboration plus dragging your feet may seem like an opportunity to be neutral, but the occupying forces don't stand for neutrality: they demand that everyone give complete support and participate in the repression.

Thus, the teachers who agreed to collaborate were compelled to do more than just teach the Putin curriculum. They also had to join in measures to attack and punish teachers who did not join in. The price of collaborating under these circumstances is to become totally corrupt and totally evil. Then how can you live with yourself?

Has Putin ever organized such complete dishonesty before? I have to wonder if he is getting advice on brainwashing from his Chinese allies.