I Thought It Was Satire but
Actually It Is Real News from Europe
Yurii Sheliazhenko / Ukrainian Pacifist Movement

Dear friends,

Poland makes firearms training mandatory for schoolchildren.

“Shooting is fun” – says a boy.
“It feels good to hit a target” – says a girl.

Armsdealer says that teaching teenagers how to shoot is a “logical introduction to the gun-friendly Polish society”, where “it is much easier to get a gun license than a driving license”.

I thought it was The Onion, but YouTube says: DW is a German public broadcast service. The Onion news items became boring after these news from Poland

…It is not funny at all, after the second thought.
Especially when I saw it in my own country.

And when similar war games in neighboring country ended in brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine

This madness must be cured by a mandatory peace curriculum in basic education and strict observance of the right to conscientious objection to military indoctrination and training in schools.

Peace,|
Yurii