History books, Russian style

 In our series "things I really didn't miss from my childhood, but am seeing again anyway":

Russians are publishing new history textbooks for school, again. You can guess the contents.

When I was young, in 1986-1988, they tried to do it, too. The problem was that the history changed more often than the publishing logistics would allow for. Pretty soon they gave up. Soon after that the teacher gave up too, let us just sit and have fun in his class, and promised us to tell us the version of history that would be on the final exam a couple of weeks before the exam, when the exam version of history would be decided.

Fuck Russia

 Today is my personal "fuck Russia" day. Normally, on this day of the year, I would drink to the anniversary of us leaving the Soviet Union and post something like "yay, 35 years without Russia!" This year, however, Russia is very much present in my thoughts and prayers, most of these prayers being for immediate and painful death of its leaders, and for the return the current zombie incarnation of the Soviet Union back to its grave.