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11. You mean they "gasp" now teach about history more recent than WWII these days?

Tue Jun 2, 2026, 05:51 PM

19 hrs ago

That's about as far as my secondary school classes ever got.

((Of course, this was well before the fall of the Soviet Union.))

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