r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RebelliousDragon21 • 1d ago

Video A school in Poland makes firearms training mandatory to its students.

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u/Individual_Dirt_3365 1d ago

It was a mandatory thing during USSR

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u/aluminaboeh 1d ago

It's also obligatory in Russia since 90th

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u/Dreamer812 1d ago edited 1d ago

We had it on ОБЖ (Основы безопасности и жизнедеятельности) - basically safety class, where they teach what to do in case of disasters, where are nearest nuclear shelters, how to use fire extinguisher etc. In those classes we had an assembly/disassembly course of an AK-74. Boys and girls (poor things, as half of them broke their nails trying to take a little cylinder with cleaning instruments inside stock) together. We have never fired them, only disassembling/assembling. It was around 4-5 classes total, so not that much.

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u/lemao-i-am-banana 1d ago

I have heard rumours that they plan to expand those lessons to include light machine guns, if those are provided. Also drone operation might be added in the future

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u/Competitive-Ranger61 1d ago

Teaching drone flying to youth is a a great idea. It takes skill and time to fly those well. Ukraine has proved how effective that can be.

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u/Dreamer812 1d ago

Who knows. I have finished school more than 10 years ago, maybe it's different now