Junarmiya

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Junarmija (Youth Army )
legal form	organization
Seat	Moscow , DOSAAF
founding	October 29, 2015
Secretary General	Roman Yuryevich Romanenko
Members	117000
Website	yunarmy.ru

Formation of Junarmija in the parade on Victory Day on May 9, 2019 the Red Square

Junarmija ( German youth army ) is the children and youth military education organization of Russia . Founded in 2016 by presidential decree, it now has up to around 200,000 children and young people between the ages of 8 and 18.

history

Junarmija girls group

The Voluntary Society for the Support of the Army, Aviation and Fleet of Russia (DOSAAF) was a Soviet mass organization which existed until 1991. In 1992 the organization was renamed ROSTO, in 2009 this temporarily private organization was nationalized again and got its old name back.

Throughout the 2000s, over 6,000 groups and military-patriotic movements had sprung up in Russia. The height of this movement was observed after the annexation of the Crimea .

On October 29, 2015, President Vladimir Putin issued a decree that a national, patriotic youth organization was to be formed. He published the decree on the founding day of the former Communist Soviet Youth Association Komsomol . The structure of the new association should be based on these. The decree was intended to unite thousands of already existing military-patriotic groups to form a nationwide "Junarmija" association and, according to observers, also to bring order to the hitherto inconsistent mass of nationalist youth groups in Russia. The "Junarmija" was created on the initiative of Defense Minister Sergei Kuschugetowitsch Shoigu and has been working in full since September 1, 2016, with the first children being admitted in May 2016. The declared aim of the is to get young people interested in the Russian army. The "Junarmija" is part of a state program for the "patriotic education" of young people. The Russian government plans to spend 1.6 billion rubles on this between 2016 and 2020.

Structure and activities

Photo opportunity with General in spring 2019 at a traveling exhibition on the Syrian war in Yekaterinburg .

The data on the strength of Junarmija range between 140,000 and 200,000 in the entire Russian Federation. The groups are subordinate to the Russian Defense Ministry and are partly formed in schools. According to the Defense Ministry, over 2,500 students in Sevastopol on the occupied Crimean peninsula joined Junarmiya.

The organization is integrated into the infrastructure of the DOSAAF and the Central Sports Club of the Army and is present at the stations of Russian armed forces. Defense Minister Shoigu said that Junarmiya members would learn to use all kinds of weapons except missiles.

The activities of the youth army can be described as “early military education”: The children and young people are introduced to the weapon systems of the Russian armed forces, maintain war memorials, guard places with the “Eternal Flame” and take part in cultural and sporting events. A regional branch of Junarmija celebrated the militia leader Arsen Sergejewitsch Pavlov (battle name "Motorola"), who fought in the war in Ukraine , as a hero.

Alignment

Der Spiegel writes about the youth army that it “serves on the one hand to control the national movement, but on the other hand also for state propaganda.” The militarization of Russian society has been criticized by various civil society groups. "This is a crime against children's rights," said Valentina Melnikova from the Soldiers ' Mothers' Committee . The youth army is also seen as an expression of the new Russian hurray patriotism and an accompanying historical revisionism .

Web links

Commons : Yunarmiya  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.interfax.ru .
2. ^ ^{A b c} Klaus-Helge Donath: Schukowskij: Russia recruits a youth army . In: Rheinische Post , July 18, 2017.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Как "Моторола" победил Марата Казея (German: How "Motorola" defeated Marat Kasej ). In: Novaya Gazeta , October 28, 2018.
4. ^ ^{A b} Youth Army takes Russia with a storm . In: The Independent Barents Observer . ( thebarentsobserver.com [accessed February 27, 2018]).
5. ↑ В Севастополе более 2500 школьников приобщили к российскому движению "Юнармия" - Минобороны России (dt. In Sevastopol Russian movement "Junarmija" are more than 2500 students joined - Defense ). In: Radio Free Europe , December 10, 2017.
6. ↑ Christina Hebel: Russian Junior Army: Putin's Young Patriots . In: Spiegel Online . February 24, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 26, 2018]).
7. ↑ Putin's Old Glorification of History and New Hurray Patriotism , Der Stern , No. 16, 2017.