Posted on 10/05/2018 9:17:14 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Nearly half of Russian youth say they have never heard of Stalin-era purges, according to a new state-sponsored survey.
Conservative estimates say nearly 700,000 Soviet citizens were killed in the ‘Great Terror’ under Stalin’s rule in 1937-38. Contemporary attitudes to Stalin as a historical figure are divided in Russia, with President Vladimir Putin having said that attempts to demonize the Soviet leader were a ploy to attack Russia.
Forty-seven percent of Russian respondents aged 18-24 told the VTsIOM pollster that they were hearing about Stalin-era repressions for the first time, according to the results of a survey published on Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...
More than half of American youth are unaware that the Democrats were behind the KKK, Eugenics, Jim Crow, and Segregation.
“Nearly half of Russian youth say they have never heard of Stalin-era purges, according to a new state-sponsored survey.”
That’s infinitely more than American youth know about anything.
This is not surprising considering no one in the USSR responsible for these crimes got their necks stretched for it.
>80% of American youth know virtually nothing about American history. Public schools don’t teach real history anymore.
I guess you could say Beria did.
... And 98 percent of Americans also have NO CLUE as to what Stalin did. So who are we to talk.
Where’s Brezhnev on that shirt?
Of course they don’t. what’s 69,000,000 murdered countrymen anyway . fifff
You got it. They don’t even know who George Washington was.
43 % of Americans know who Herbert Hoover was.
one out of a thousand can name all 5 freedoms enumerated in the first Amendment.
29% cannot find the pacific ocean on a globe. Half cannot find New York.
from today: ‘Honoring Herbert Hoover’
(in Poland of course. because why should Americans even know who he is?!)
http://www.thenews.pl/1/6/Artykul/385650,Honouring-Herbert-Hoover
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