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The other side: in USSR we were not even taught about WWII. It was "The Great Patriotic War". And it was all Red Army vs. Germans.
by rimliu 7y ago
The other side: in USSR we were not even taught about WWII. It was "The Great Patriotic War". And it was all Red Army vs. Germans.
- ClumsyPilot 7y agoI was taught in the Russian school system, and while it's true that main emphasis is on the eastern front, but the rest of the world is broadly represented. I have never meant a person that was not aware of the other fronts, and did not know at least the broad strokes of France/normandy/etc.
- rimliu 7y agoWell, the time I am talking about was the last decade of the USSR. Access to information was way more limited then.
- manthedudeguy 7y agoAt least you come out of this with education on the subset of the war that was larger than all other subsets combined. In the US we do the opposite.