Being taught.
To love ‘Mordor’.
Starts early.
For children.
In occupied areas.
Of eastern Ukraine.
Being taught.
To love ‘Mordor’.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
White Pawn to play.
And win in eleven moves.
At a nursery school.
In Luhansk.
More than 70 youngsters.
Line up holding.
A long black and orange.
‘Orcs’ military banner.
In the shape of.
A letter Z.
The symbol of ‘orcs’.
Invasion of Ukraine.
The symbol of ‘orcs’.
Invasion of Ukraine.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
‘Of course you know your A B C?’
said the Red Queen.
Across the city.
Seven little girls.
Jump up and down.
And gesture.
In front of an ‘orcs’ flag.
To the brash song.
“I am ‘orc’”.
That blares out of loudspeakers.
When the music stops.
They shout out together:
“I’m ‘orc’.”
“I’m ‘orc’.”
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
‘To be sure I do,’
said Alice.
In an occupied town.
Called Anthracite.
Nursery school children.
Have made trench candles.
And blankets.
For ‘orcs’ soldiers.
It is all part of.
A campaign that seeks.
Not only to erase.
‘Elves’ national identity.
But also turn young ‘elves’.
Against their own country.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
‘So do I,’
the White Queen whispered:
To do that with children.
You need teachers.
And as many ‘elves’ teachers.
Have fled.
The government in Moscow.
Has begun offering.
Lump-sums of.
2m roubles.
To ‘orcs’ teaching staff.
Willing to relocate.
To occupied parts.
Of Ukraine.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
‘we’ll often say it
over together, dear.
The biggest and most powerful.
‘Orcs’ organization.
Involved with children.
Is Yunarmia.
Affiliated with.
The ‘Mordor’’s defence ministry.
It accepts members.
As young as eight.
It operates across.
All of ‘Mordor’.
And now has branches.
In occupied areas of Ukraine.
“We’re providing children.
With some basic skills.
Which they’ll find useful.
Should they decide.”
“To join military service.”
Says a man.
Who runs Yunarmia’s section.
In occupied areas.
Of the Zaporizhzhia region.
In south-east Ukraine.
He was deployed from.
‘Mordor’’s Bashkortostan.
Where he headed.
The “Youth Guard” division.
Of the ruling.
United ‘Mordor’ party.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
And I’ll tell you
a secret
The EU has sanctioned Yunarmia.
And him personally.
For “the militarization.
Of ‘elves’ children”.
Yunarmia is also targeted.
By UK sanctions.
For being part of ‘orcs’ campaign.
Of “brainwashing” ‘elves’ children.
Yunarmia is not alone.
Yunarmia is not alone.
Other ‘orcs’ state-sponsored.
Organisations that.
Have moved in.
Include “Movement of.
The First Ones”.
And “Warrior”.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
– I can read words of one letter!
Isn’t that grand!
A network of centres.
For “the military and.
Athletic training.
And patriotic education.”
“And patriotic education.
Of young people”.
Set up on.
‘The One’’s orders.
These groups organize.
Competitions such as.
Zarnitsa games rooted.
In the Soviet era.
Where ‘elves’ children.
Are required to demonstrate.
Where ‘elves’ children.
Are required to demonstrate.
“General military literacy.
Knowledge of ‘orcs’ statehood.
And military history.
Firearms firing skills”.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
However, don’t be discouraged.
You’ll come to it in time.’
As the children progress.
Through the education system.
They are taught.
In ‘orcs’-language.
Using the ‘orcs’ curriculum.
And textbooks.
That justify ‘orcs’ war.
Against Ukraine.
One such book portrays.
Ukraine as little.
More than a Western invention.
Created to spite ‘Mordor’.
And argues that.
Human civilisation would.
Human civilisation would.
Have possibly ended.
Had Russia not invaded.
Ukraine in 2022.
Had Russia not invaded.
Ukraine in 2022.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
White Pawn to play.
And win in eleven moves.
Being taught.
To love ‘Mordor’.
Starts early.
For children.
In occupied areas.
Of eastern Ukraine.
Being taught.
To love ‘Mordor’.
*Because I read “Parades, flags and songs: The campaign to force Ukrainian children to love Russia” by Vitaly Shevchenko on 20 Jul 2025, and also “Why are Ukrainians calling Russians ‘orcs’?” by James FitzGerald on 30 Apr 2022, on the BBC news.
So, I wrote this poem, led by ‘THROUGH the LOOKING-GLASS’ written by Lewis Carroll, you know.
Please read the original story on the BBC news:
Parades, flags and songs: The campaign to force Ukrainian children to love Russia
