“You need to imagine something like a Chinese labor camp, where everybody marches in a line and where video cameras are hung everywhere. There is constant control and a culture of snitching,” he said. But he suggested that perhaps the most maddening thing in the slammer is being forced to watch state TV and propaganda movies for more than eight hours a day in what authorities call an “awareness-raising” program.
“Reading, writing or doing anything else” is prohibited, Navalny said. “You have to sit in a chair and watch TV,” he said, adding that if a prisoner falls asleep, the guards shout “Don’t sleep, watch!” In describing his daily routine, Navalny said the five daily sessions of TV watching start right after morning calisthenics, breakfast and sweeping the yard. “I most clearly understand the essence of the ideology of the Putin regime: The present and the future are being substituted with the past--the truly heroic past, or embellished past, or completely fictional past,” Navalny said.
“All sorts of past must constantly be in the spotlight to displace thoughts about the future and questions about the present,” he said adding “Everything is organized so that I am under maximum control 24 hours a day.” During his first weeks in the slammer, he said, his limbs numbed, either from lingering effects of the Novichok poisoning or from a back injury from riding in a prison vehicle--but added that his symptoms eased when guards stopped waking him hourly at night.
“I now understand why sleep deprivation is one of the favorite tortures of the special services,” he told the Times. “No traces remain, and it’s impossible to tolerate.” https://nypost.com/2021/08/26/alexei-navalny-forced-to-watch-russian-propaganda-as-part-of-sentence/
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3-7-21 Haitiwaji's first-hand account is what human right groups say over 1 million Uighurs--as well as ethnic Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in the western province in Xinjiang have gone through in recent years--a program of “permanent brainwashing” and “forced cultural assimilation,” she said. https://abcnews.go.com/International/uighur-woman-living-france-speaks-alleged-chinese-education/story?id=76202537
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1-6-21 Nawaz Kot, Pakistan (CNN) -- "When we got to this compound it was shocking for us," Lt. Col. Yusuf tells us, standing in the middle of what the Pakistani military says was a brainwashing center--for children. It was here, according to the Pakistani military, that children aged 12 to 18 were turned from innocent youngsters into cold-blooded killers, willing to blow themselves to bits as suicide bombers.
The discovery of the compound was first reported in Pakistani media last month. Yusuf says his unit took it over after a three day battle with militants.
Part of the compound consists of four rooms--each wall adorned with brightly colored paintings in clear contrast to the barren and harsh landscape surrounding it. The children were told that this was what awaited them in heaven.
Each of the images has a river flowing through it. Some have people playing in the water. Others have women lining the banks.
The military says that the children are told that these are rivers of milk and honey, that the women are the virgins that await them in heaven. That the children were told that they will live in the company of the holy prophet and be served feasts.
One has a home similar to the mud homes in the area which the military says is meant to invoke memories of where the children are from but with a beautiful mountainous green backdrop. Written across it are the words "Long live the Taliban of the mountains."
The images may appear simple. But for the children from this part of Pakistan they are captivating. They grow up in abject poverty surrounded by dirt-colored mountains with treacherous gullies and valleys with no exposure to the outside world. They are gullible and easily manipulated.
"I have never seen such elaborate paintings about so-called heaven," Taliban expert Zahid Hussein says, looking at the images.
He has seen similar tactics in the past and spoken extensively with would-be child suicide bombers in the custody of the authorities. "They [the militants] say life is a waste here and if you do a good thing you will go to heaven, immediately to heaven.”
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/01/05/pakistan.taliban.children/index.html
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4-6-21 Brainwashed Compliance To Arbitrary Mandates Is Not The American Spirit https://www.greenevillesun.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/letter-brainwashed-compliance-to-arbitrary-mandates-is-not-the-american-spirit/article_aef91d6e-d965-5a1d-82e6-ccd5feacb9e4.html
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