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What are young Russians today taught of 1914-1918 war?

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EricP Frequent Guest Joined: 16 Aug 2008 Posts: 10 Location: Moscow or Texas	Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:39 am    Post subject: What are young Russians today taught of 1914-1918 war? I am curious on this question. That war was the turning point of history for America, Western Europe and Russia. It had the greatest impact on culture of any war ever, turning Europe away from patriotism and Christianity and turning Russia towards Communism. The political impact was to start the US on a century of world power while bankrupting the traditional European empires which eventually collapsed after 1945. 1914-1918 was truely the most signficiant event of the 20th century, even if more people actually died in 1939-1945. Historians increasingly see the two wars as two acts of the same play. OK so Russia obviously lost that one, an unfortunate event in between triumphant Alexander in Paris in 1814 and triumphant Zhukov in Berlin in 1945. What are young Russians taught? Is Russia more honest with it's children than the US has been about the 1812 war with England, or as dishonest as Japan remains today about 1941-45? The answer will tell us something about where Russia is going in the future. I really think the post 1945 Germans have the most to teach everyone of how to teach children about a lost, ill-concieved war. EricP
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Absurd Frequent Guest Joined: 22 Apr 2008 Posts: 28	Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:05 pm    Post subject: Re: What are young Russians today taught of 1914-1918 war? EricP wrote: The political impact was to start the US on a century of world power while bankrupting the traditional European empires which eventually collapsed after 1945. 1914-1918 was truely the most signficiant event of the 20th century, even if more people actually died in 1939-1945. Historians increasingly see the two wars as two acts of the same play. The common opinions about WWI in Russia diverges to two camps: Pro-German and Anti-German. The first group thinks that Russia fought on the wrong side because English intelligence sown seeds of war between Russia and Germany in order to crush two dangerous players on continent. Anti-German group hold opinion that Germany has always needed Russia only as a bag of resources for taking superiority amongst the Western World. Current policy of the UK makes Pro-German opinion very popular.
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Rimski Frequent Guest Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 58	Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 2:34 pm    Post subject: before 1917, Russia was in competition with colonial empires especially France and Great Britain. After 1917, at the end of WWI, Russia became an ennemy of colonial and imperial powers thanks to the bolchevik revolution. in my view, what happened was a very interesting experience engaging against the Germans in WWI was a waste of time and lives. Lenin said this was a colonial war. Their war (the europeans). Their problem. And i agree with him.
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RyZ Frequent Guest Joined: 16 May 2009 Posts: 33 Location: Volgograd, Russia	Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 4:47 pm    Post subject: Re: What are young Russians today taught of 1914-1918 war? EricP wrote: OK so Russia obviously lost that on bull shit - Russia declared separate peace with Germany, but that wasn't a defeat...but that wasn't a victory, too. There were some problems in Russia that time (Communist party came to rule a country, but there where a lot of problems to solve, so Russia has been compelled to finish that war)...but there were another reason - leaving that war was one of the things russian people were looked for, but Alexander didn't anything
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