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Actually it is. Putin overhauled the history textbooks and the changes included casting Stalin in a more positive light. [/quote]

You're so cute, you remind me of a rhyming contest Russia ran in jest a few years ago.  The poem had to have two lines, and the second had to be "Yes, it must be Putin's fault." I remember the entries that went like" Did you your girlfriend cheat on you? yes, it must be Putin's fault. Did your skating practice suck? Yes, it must be Putin's fault."  It's much funnier in Russian.

The real answer, my little darling, has nothing to do with any alleged education reform (certainly, not enough people would have graduated school with the new textbooks - if they existed - to make any difference!)   The real answer is that for a substantial number of Russians, life under Stalin and his successors was substantially better than it is today.  And all the Hedricks of the world won't be able to do a damn about that.

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The majority of Russians who lived under Stalin are dead. [/quote]
My grandmother’s family experienced famine during Stalin years before the war of 1941. My other grandmother’s family owned a textile factory, which was taken from them during forced government repossession of private property called collectivization. People who worked hard and were talented were the worst victims of Stalin regime. People who were dirt poor either stayed dirt poor and lived a little better. And education during Stalin was free only for the first four grades, then parents had to pay. One of my grandmothers has a four grade education exactly for that reason. One of my grandfathers, her husband, had four grades of school as well, managing to continue his education and get an engineering degree after he already married and had children, long after Stalin’s death.[/quote] what does your family history have to do with the sentence I wrote above?[/quote]
I was continuing on the subject of life under Stalin. I think that people today idealize Stalin exactly because they did not learn be under his rule.[/quote]

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