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Actually yes, to an extent. There’s a range of approved textbooks and they vary in their presentation. It also comes down to the teacher and teachers in Moscow, Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, and other large cities tend to be more liberal (in the Russian sense) than in other parts of the country. The environment in these places is just very different.

Look at how the political opposition does in Moscow vs the rest of the country as another example of how different Moscow is. [/quote]

You're really bending it here to suit your narrative, you know.  Just the fact that there is a RANGE of approved textbooks that "vary in their presentation" doesn't really jibe with the message of dictatorial control you're trying to push.

I'll have you know, furthermore, that I was in school in the late eighties, far in the provinces, and at that time we already had free discussion in history classes about all the horrors of that period. [/quote]

I never said the Kremlin had total control. I said they’ve TRIED and the polling shows they’ve been largely successful.

This largely started in the last 20 years, so your experience in the 80s isn’t relevant. Of course you learned about it during that time. This is a more recent phenomenon. [/quote]

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