Pavel Talankin had never been outside Russia before he went into exile in summer 2024, leaving his home in the Ural mountains for his own safety after he quietly stood up to President Putin's war machine. We met on Pasha's 35th birthday. He turned up to our interview with shiny pink balloons - a '3' and a '5' - that he said he had bought himself that morning. " The answer, if you're interested, is 3. " The BBC documentary charts the story of what happened after Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and how Pasha was reluctantly drawn into Putin's propaganda machine. As they were making the film, Talankin says nearly 200,000 teachers left their jobs rather than be part of a system that is indoctrinating children.