[NorseViking]

It is part of federal curriculum since 2011. Studied at schools on their own since 1990.

[GoldenState_Rose]

Larisa says she teaches her students one lesson about the Gulag, in which she typically divides the blackboard into two parts. On one side she puts the “military and industrial achievements” of the Stalin period, and on the other, the “unfortunate side-effects”, and lets the students decide for themselves whether the repression was justified.

This is exactly how people described their academic encounter with Stalin era to me as well.

Gulag's been whitewashed and waterdown. Victims memories sacrificed on the altar of the Cult of Victory.