<Seraphinus> at the Spanish conversation group that I go to, a met a Russian guy in his early 20s (who speaks really good Spanish, entirely self-taught)
<Seraphinus> he was telling that at the public school he went to he was taught almost nothing of Soviet history
<Seraphinus> telling me that*
<kaakitwitaasota> unsurprising, really
<kaakitwitaasota> i keep trying to find Robert Conquest in bookstores here and I don't think there's a single copy of the man's work anywhere in the country