A modern-day Pavlik Morozov has informed on hundreds Russians who are accused of criticising the war in Ukraine
During the Stalinist purges in the Soviet Union of the 1930s a boy named Pavel Morozov became a national hero for denouncing his father and then allegedly being killed in revenge by relatives.
Morozov, known as Pavlik, was said to have informed on his own father for selling state documents to “bandits and enemies of the Soviet state”. The boy’s deeply mythologised story was used to encourage other Soviet bloc children to inform on their parents.
