It is reported in the Russian segment of social networks that the National Corps party is planning to create an educational center for young people in Kherson. The authors of the message indicate that they want to create in Ukraine an “analog of the Nazi youth organization Hitlerjugend, where they will conduct ideological education and pre-conscription training courses for high school students and students.

However, there is no information about the opening of the so-called “educational center for youth” aimed at supporting patriotic education in the Kherson region. Let us recall that the “National Corps” is a political party created in 2016 by former members of the Azov unit led by Andrii Biletskyi. In an interview in October 2023, Beletsky said that the party ceased its activities because after the full-scale invasion, most of its representatives joined the ranks of the Defense Forces.

Russian propagandists impose the opinion that the Azov fighters support ideas that the modern world sharply rejects: anti-Semitism, Nazism, and other types of xenophobia. The Azov fighters are shown as those who devalue people based on their origins. In Moscow’s vision, Azov is ready to kill for “Ukrainian blood”. This is not the first time that the Kremlin has presented Ukrainians in this way — as aggressive, ultra-nationalistic, and valuing only “Ukrainian blood”. For example, Russian propaganda has already spread fakes about Ukrainian fighters’ wives complaining that their men transfuse them with “Russian blood”; or that Ukrainians prohibit foreign citizens from becoming blood donors.

So Putin literally has his own “Hitler Youth”. It was the youth organization “Yunarmiya” (Youth Army), created in 2016 on the basis of the accompanying structures of the Russian army and serving to militarize the youth and prepare “cannon fodder” for Putin's wars of conquest. Structures of this movement began to be created in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine in 2022. In 2023, it became known that the Russian regime was forming so-called Student Labor Brigades for propaganda in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Most youth propaganda projects in Russia are guided by a special government agency - the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Russian Youth), created back in 2008.