Putin Uses Orcas “Tearing Bears Apart” to Explain Russia’s War Against Ukraine to Children

Isn't a bear a russian national animal or something? So the analogy is the Ukrainians will tear russians into bloody pieces?

As an addition:

This week, students returning to Russian schools. They will discover a change to their civics courses that puts military training at the heart of the lessons. One report about it is by Bloomberg (paywalled), republished by Fortune. Amongst others, it says:

...The mandatory classes for teenagers include learning about the main types of armaments including machine guns, anti-tank weapons and hand grenades, as well as emergency field medicine and general military discipline. While some of the skills were previously taught in limited high school modules, the new version escalates this training for children as young as 13.

The revamped curriculum ordered by the Education Ministry requires half of weekly classes in the “Fundamentals of Security and Defense of the Motherland” course to focus on basic military training. It’s part of a creeping militarization of Russia’s schools intended to shape the next generation of army recruits as the Kremlin continues the war in Ukraine that’s now in its fifth year.

“The romanticization of war and violence, combined with a constant fear of external enemies, instills in young people the idea that human life holds no value and that dying for the regime and the president is normal,” said Pavel Talankin, an exiled Russian teacher who co-directed the Oscar-winning documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin that focused on rising war propaganda in his school. “If necessary, one must die for the motherland, taking up the flag and marching into the line of fire without asking questions" ...

State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin wants veterans of the war in Ukraine to be placed in “every single school” to teach children in subjects related to their military experience ...

Volodin’s wish is already close to being fulfilled. A survey of more than 2,600 Russian school leaders and teachers conducted by the state-sponsored Knowledge Society (Znanie) found that 95% of schools host events dedicated to the war in Ukraine, more than 80% invite combatants to speak to students, and nearly 75% run special lessons about the war.

Outside the classroom, Russia has revived and modernized Soviet-era youth military games called “Zarnitsa” (Summer Lightning) ... Participation in the program has grown from 800,000 children aged from 7 to 17 years in 2024 to an expected 2.5 million this year. The youth organization overseeing the games receives annual funding of about 20 billion rubles ($233 million) from the federal budget ... Russia’s federal budget has allocated a record 70 billion rubles this year for “patriotic education” through the national project “Youth and Children” — a twenty-fold increase since 2021 ...

In the Russian-occupied areas of eastern and southern Ukraine, there’s a wholesale revision of education in schools that amounts to cultural erasure. New state-approved history textbooks introduced this year will teach children in Moscow-controlled parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions that their land was always Russian.

“The entire system has been reshuffled to normalize the war,” said Alexandra Arkhipova, a Russian anthropologist and researcher at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. “The state is preparing young people to accept the battlefield as their primary civic destination.”

It drives you insane even if you think sending your children to such indoctrination camps disguised as schools.

Do orcas typically take over a decade to tear a bear apart?

I can explain his presidency using a tapeworm

On this allegory what animal is China, who is clearly a much bigger animal eating the Orca's tail?