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Russia's Fascist Youth Groups

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The State's Force to Join the Youth League

The Russian youth army had a million members at the beginning of 2022, and they had 1.29 millionMembership is increasingly being incentivized through very savvy and well done digital campaigns. These regional groups run their own TikTok account that they produce these little snippets of videos of basically how cooler this to be in the youth army. They're ordinary kids doing TikTok dances on red square all kitted out in uniform saying joining the youth army is great we're learning to be physically stronger. And so many friends. But there is also what's proving so effective and what I think is so alarming for the ways in which the group operates but also youth movements might begin to operate elsewhere around the world

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