Social network users dispute about song of Volgograd schoolchildren about Putin

Anna Kuvychko, a State Duma MP from the Volgograd Region, has shot a video with pupils of the cadet classes. In the video, the children are singing about their willingness to be led by President Vladimir Putin in the last battle. Children should not be involved in recording of songs about the willingness to fight, wrote participants of the discussions in social networks. Meanwhile, other social network users argued that children should be taught patriotism from the very small age.

The video "State Duma MP Anna Kuvychko and Volgograd cadets. HD" was posted on YouTube by user "Geroi Ryadom" (Heroes are next to us). The video gained 671 likes and more than 12,000 dislikes.

In the song, the schoolchildren express their readiness to go to the last battle. They also sing "we will not ever give up a ridge to samurai," "we will save Sevastopol and Crimea for descendants" and "we return Alaska to the homeland."

The opposition, including Alexei Navalny, condemned the video in social networks.

In her turn, Anna Kuvychko wrote on Facebook that the song "aroused sincere interest in Volgograd." Besides, according to the State Duma member, "the absolute majority of fellow countrymen support the President."

"The song states that we all really need peace! It is about our Great Russia and, of course, about our President! And the song also states that one should learn to love the Motherland and be ready to stand up for it!" noted the State Duma member in her statement.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.