This is the world Ron DeSantis yearns for, but instead of anti-war messages, it would be because of his homophobia or white grievance: Authorities in Russia took a 13-year-old girl away from her father after she drew a cartoon determined to be anti-war at school.
The New York Times reports Aleksei Moskalyov’s daughter was placed in an orphanage after she refused to follow an art teacher’s direction to draw something that supported the Russian military’s invasion of Ukraine. Instead, she drew a mother and daughter carrying a Ukrainian flag and wrote the words “No war” and “Glory to Ukraine.”
Moskalyov was placed on house arrest for the crime of “discreding the Russian military.” The daughter was released to the custody of her mother; Moskalyov previously had sole custody and the child did not want to live with her mother. Her father, however, wrote the girl a letter beseeching her to go with whatever relative claimed her to get her out of Russia’s abusive child care system.
Maria Lvova-Belova, who supposedly oversees children’s rights in Russia but is actually responsible for their indoctrination and is currently deemed a war criminal for kidnapping children from Ukraine, posted on the conservative-favored Telegram platform, “Today, during a conversation with the mother, having learned the details about her life and making an immediate impression, I thought, ‘what if a miracle is really possible. Despite all the circumstances of the past. At the very least, they both have this right.”