Children in red hats with red flags stand on Red Square.
Children attend an official initiation ceremony for a youth organization in Moscow's Red Square.
  • Russia is indoctrinating its youth with nationalistic, imperialist ideology.
  • One college fraternity says it is building "the future elite of Russia."
  • Experts told BI that Russia's system of patriotic education is to ensure Putinism remains long after the leader's death.

For years, Russia's youth has been fed hardline nationalistic ideology as the Kremlin has sought to engineer a new generation of Putin clones.