in my culture, beating children has literally been around for thousands of years. it's part of the culture and it gives people a sense of community and purpose. the fact that you would even suggest stopping the beatings betrays your western-centric colonialist mindset.
The defeat of the Soviet forces led by Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky at the Battle of Warsaw in August 1920, due to the incompetency and insubordination of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin and Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny, is the reason I will never have this.