🇷🇺 A new sinister genre of nationalistic fantasy fiction is on the rise in #Russia, targeting the country’s most impressionable demographic.

Teenagers and young men are being pulled into patriotic fervour by “Z literature”, which delivers a simple message: enlist, fight, and glorify the Russian state.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/05/31/the-russian-novels-brainwashing-teens-into-enlisting/

Archive: https://archive.is/2025.05.31-134644/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/05/31/the-russian-novels-brainwashing-teens-into-enlisting/

#propaganda

The Russian novels brainwashing teens into enlisting

Teenagers and young men are being pulled into patriotic fervour by ‘Z literature’ which delivers the message they should fight for Russia

The Telegraph