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This, of course is a bit of exaggeration, but I see what you mean. As a one who had to study history from Soviet textbooks, as far as I remember there was no su

This, of course is a bit of exaggeration, but I see what you mean. As a one who had to study history from Soviet textbooks, as far as I remember there was no such thing as Secret Protocols to that pact. Correct me if I am wrong, but the Soviet invasion of Poland did not happen (and Katyn massacre was work of Germans) and Baltic states asked to be "admitted" into Union (all of them, almost simultaneously). The winter war with Finland of course was Finnish provocation, for which they had to pay by giving up parts of Karelia. I wouldn't be surprised that officially endorsed interpretation of history in modern Russia is not far from what it was back then.

TomMarius 7y ago
I'm Czech, and I was hitchhiking around Balkan last summer. One time we stopped a young-ish Russian driver (around 35). He didn't even know that their army occupied Czechoslovakia, he thought we got attacked and the Warsaw Pact army came to help. He thought (and probably still thinks) I'm lying, even after I've shown him a wiki page. He nearly left us on the side of a highway over this, he got really angry about it (but he was a good person!).
- aivisol 7y ago
  Are you referring to the events of 1968 ?
  - TomMarius 7y ago
    Yes, the Warsaw Pact invasion that ended the Prague Spring - he had no idea even about Prague Spring
    - aivisol 7y ago
      Well, that entry did not exist in history books of USSR back then, and chances are low it is included now.
- petre 7y ago
  You can't really blame him for being taught an alternative history. Another victim of soviet propaganda. I don't know what they've been telling people in Czechoslovakia before 1989, but in the rest of the Warsaw Pact countries the Soviets were touted as liberating heroes, even after they invaded Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
  - TomMarius 7y ago
    I don't blame him in the slightest. I was already aware by then that Russians are taught bullshit from different personal experience. One point though, he went to school after the fall of the Soviet Union, not before.
    - petre 7y ago
      I'm sure they think that they liberated Crimeea and Donbass as opposed to occupying parts of Ukraine. No wonder the accepted line of thought in Russia is still that the USSR has liberated all these ungrateful nations.
      - TomMarius 7y ago
        A few weeks ago I watched the police detain a drunk 60-ish Russian man in Prague who screamed at people visiting the protest (against Babis, the prime minister who is directing EU fund money to his corporation Agrofert) that we're "ungrateful bitches" and "we'll [Russians] be back to take what we gave you".
- arebours 7y ago
  I wonder was it something he had been thought at school or did he learn it from media/internet/friends later on. I'm Polish and I remember history classes on Tesin in 1938 or Poland's involvement in 1968 invasion. But I also see a lot of history whitewashing from nationalist movements succesfully penetrating the society. I too used to hitchhike in the Balkans and usually tried to avoid politics or sensitive subjects but I guess I wouldn't be able to resist myself in this case. Probably ending up thrown out by the driver considering current Poland-Russia relations. Sad how people in Central/Eastern Europe are still traumatized by the consequences of WW2.

TomMarius 7y ago

I'm Czech, and I was hitchhiking around Balkan last summer. One time we stopped a young-ish Russian driver (around 35). He didn't even know that their army occupied Czechoslovakia, he thought we got attacked and the Warsaw Pact army came to help. He thought (and probably still thinks) I'm lying, even after I've shown him a wiki page. He nearly left us on the side of a highway over this, he got really angry about it (but he was a good person!).

aivisol 7y ago
Are you referring to the events of 1968 ?
- TomMarius 7y ago
  Yes, the Warsaw Pact invasion that ended the Prague Spring - he had no idea even about Prague Spring
  - aivisol 7y ago
    Well, that entry did not exist in history books of USSR back then, and chances are low it is included now.
petre 7y ago
You can't really blame him for being taught an alternative history. Another victim of soviet propaganda. I don't know what they've been telling people in Czechoslovakia before 1989, but in the rest of the Warsaw Pact countries the Soviets were touted as liberating heroes, even after they invaded Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
- TomMarius 7y ago
  I don't blame him in the slightest. I was already aware by then that Russians are taught bullshit from different personal experience. One point though, he went to school after the fall of the Soviet Union, not before.
  - petre 7y ago
    I'm sure they think that they liberated Crimeea and Donbass as opposed to occupying parts of Ukraine. No wonder the accepted line of thought in Russia is still that the USSR has liberated all these ungrateful nations.
    - TomMarius 7y ago
      A few weeks ago I watched the police detain a drunk 60-ish Russian man in Prague who screamed at people visiting the protest (against Babis, the prime minister who is directing EU fund money to his corporation Agrofert) that we're "ungrateful bitches" and "we'll [Russians] be back to take what we gave you".
arebours 7y ago
I wonder was it something he had been thought at school or did he learn it from media/internet/friends later on. I'm Polish and I remember history classes on Tesin in 1938 or Poland's involvement in 1968 invasion. But I also see a lot of history whitewashing from nationalist movements succesfully penetrating the society. I too used to hitchhike in the Balkans and usually tried to avoid politics or sensitive subjects but I guess I wouldn't be able to resist myself in this case. Probably ending up thrown out by the driver considering current Poland-Russia relations. Sad how people in Central/Eastern Europe are still traumatized by the consequences of WW2.