Laas Leivat: From beast to ‘commander-in-chief’ in a few short years

One of the most telling indicators of fundamental change in public attitudes is a shift in a topic’s treatment in school textbooks.

Amending Soviet and Russian history in school programs has helped to impose a positive image of Josif Stalin and this conclusion is easily derived – after all, he led the Soviet Union to glorious victory and liberated Europe from the scourge of Nazism.