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Welcome to the camp that trained 7-year-olds to be defenders of the Russian homeland


There was once a military training camp for the young in Europe, known as the Crimea Sich, that took place every year in August for two weeks. It was located in Crimea, a peninsula right below Ukraine and Russia. The Cossacks — an ethnic minority of East Slavic people who in 2014 helped Russia annex Crimea from Ukraine — would send kids as young as 7 to military training camps to learn how to become “defenders of the homeland.” Ukrainian photographer Maxim Dondyuk spent parts of the last five years attending a military training camp in Crimea to see how …read more

Source: Business Insider

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