Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, a short video uploaded by a user of short-video platform Douyin, known as TikTok overseas, showed an elementary school teacher telling students that Ukraine is a “prodigal” child of the former Soviet Union.
In this video, a female teacher, whose face was not shown, vehemently told dozens of sixth-grade students in class that Ukraine should have been the proudest country as it inherited the largest military legacy of the former Soviet Union at the end of the 20th century, but it is a prodigal and therefore now a most regrettable nation.
