{"id":30074,"date":"2020-03-06T17:53:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T17:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=30074"},"modified":"2020-03-06T17:53:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T17:53:43","slug":"russian-sports-competitions-are-different-than-ours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=30074","title":{"rendered":"Russian Sports Competitions Are Different Than Ours"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5093,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Khabarovsk&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5094,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.businessinsider.com\\\/russian-students-taught-how-to-assemble-ak47s-in-themed-lessons-2019-10&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5095,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/meduza.io\\\/en\\\/news\\\/2019\\\/10\\\/29\\\/russia-s-education-ministry-releases-plans-for-anniversary-lessons-on-kalashnikov-that-involve-assembling-rifles-in-school&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5096,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/docs.edu.gov.ru\\\/document\\\/ef4942ff7fd402e626f124a946f514ec\\\/download\\\/2399&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>They do things a bit differently in schools in Russia and they have sports that would have American teachers&#8217; unions freaking out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like this one in the city of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khabarovsk\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Khabarovsk<\/a> in the Russian Far East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FCBSNews%2Fvideos%2F2565228143720341%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=476\" width=\"476\" height=\"476\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>While it started earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/russian-students-taught-how-to-assemble-ak47s-in-themed-lessons-2019-10\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it was made mandatory in 2019<\/a> that all Russian students be taught how to assemble and disassemble AK47\/74s. It was part of their &#8220;patriotism&#8221; lessons and is meant to <a href=\"https:\/\/meduza.io\/en\/news\/2019\/10\/29\/russia-s-education-ministry-releases-plans-for-anniversary-lessons-on-kalashnikov-that-involve-assembling-rifles-in-school\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commemorate the 100th anniversary of Mikhail Kalashnikov&#8217;s birth.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> Russia\u2019s Education Ministry has released methodological\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.edu.gov.ru\/document\/ef4942ff7fd402e626f124a946f514ec\/download\/2399\/\" target=\"_blank\">guidelines<\/a>\u00a0for schoolteachers to use on November 10, the 100th anniversary of Mikhail Kalashnikov\u2019s birth. The guidelines call for a nationwide lesson on the inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle, arguing that such a class will foster patriotism, help schoolchildren form a Russian identity, allow them to understand the value of defending their fatherland, and facilitate interest in military service down the line. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine if American schools &#8211; other than places like Trinidad Junior College or Montgomery Community College &#8211; had similar programs like that commemorating the contributions of John Moses Browning, John C. Garand, or Eugene Stoner to the American military and American history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hmmm.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They do things a bit differently in schools in Russia and they have sports that would have American teachers&#8217;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5140,5138,1377,5139,5141],"class_list":["post-30074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ak-assembly-contests","tag-mikhail-kalashnikov","tag-russia","tag-russian-education","tag-russian-education-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30076,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30074\/revisions\/30076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}