Journalists learned that at Alabuga Polytechnic College, children were forced not only to assemble drones, but also to do low-skilled work, in which students predominantly from Africa.
At the Russian college “Alabuga Polytech”, located in the Republic of Tatarstan, underage students participate in the assembly of Shahed drones. This was noted in a joint investigation into the Protocol broadcast and the U-turn YouTube channel.
It is reported that several hundred young people are already involved in the assembly of drones in Russia. Senior students are also gradually drawn into the process and transfer them from other projects.
According to journalists, minors are paid 30-40 thousand rubles for their work. Students complain that they are not paid extra for overtime and weekend work.
“Total employment in the project of assembling Iranian warplanes could not have affected the performance of the students involved. Many work from morning to evening and there is no time left to study,” the authors of the inquiry note wrote.
Investigators also discovered that students had signed a contract that required them to remain silent about what they were doing. Otherwise, they face deportation and a fine of 1.5 to 2 million rubles. It is impossible to take a child from the institution without paying a large sum.
One of the students said, “We don’t like all this very much, but it is impossible to leave the project. You either quit or you take part in the project.”
According to the authors of the study, foreign students study mainly at the Alabuga Polytechnic University, in 2022 several dozen girls from African countries entered educational institutions.
Journalists claim that female students from Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nigeria and Pakistan are interested in jobs that require less skill than assembling drones. According to them, foreign students have to wash the floors and throw away the garbage.
Recall that, according to media reports on July 17, Russian invaders began to take Ukrainian children to Belarus, where Russian President Vladimir Putin was actually brainwashed into doing a brave deed.
Focus He also wrote that young people in Russian Yunarmia were taught to hate Ukraine, encouraged to sacrifice their lives for their “homeland”, and trained to be soldiers. Detachments of the militarist movement have already appeared in the occupied Ukrainian cities.
Source: Focus
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