History to order. How and why the description of the Great Patriotic War in school textbooks changed within 84 years
Each generation in Russia is a little different in studying the Great Patriotic War in history lessons. The content of textbooks changes depending on the political situation in the country. In the early 1950s, the authors wrote about the decisive role of Stalin during the war, in the 1960s mentioned him in the context of the made mistakes. After 2014, along with the Battle of Stalingrad, schoolchildren began to study the defense of Crimea in detail.