OSW Commentary - Education serves the regime. The ideologisation and militarisation of the Belarusian education system

Six of these are components of the law enforcement sector: the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee, the State Forensic Examinations Committee, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the State Border Committee.13 It is worth noting in this context When Lukashenka declared 2023 as a year of peace that the continued process of ad- and creativity, schoo. [...] The topics ‘discussed’ during these meetings include the situation in the neighbouring countries, pressure from Western sanctions, the security of Belarus and the government’s achievements in the field of socio-economic policy.16 The militarisation of education The regime has defined the main goals of its programme of military-patriotic education for children and young people. [...] In spring, Igor Lutsky, the head of the Inter-Ministry Council for Patriotic Education and deputy head of the Presidential Administration, admitted that the defence ministry, the law enforcement bodies and units of the ‘mass mobilisation’ movement, a volunteer organisation formed at the local level, are of key importance in ensuring the patriotic education of young people. [...] However, Lukashenka views the ministry’s activity in the education sector as insufficient, and has requested that Kubrakou set up similar general secondary schools in each region of Belarus.21 Is the education system becoming totalitarian? The developments recorded in the Belarusian education system should be considered in the context of the evolution of the state model as a whole, which has been. [...] It is worth noting that the main message contained in the curriculum and instilled in young people’s minds – that is, hostility towards the Western states – resembles the Russian vision of the confrontation with the West, while the support Belarus has offered Russia in its invasion of Ukraine has further increased the level of ‘militarisation’ of the education system.