Texas and the Textbook Alamo

Texas and the Textbook Alamo

In the days of the Soviet Union, children in schools learned that Russians invented the airplane and the refrigerator. They learned there was no God and that the glorious days of the union began and ended with Marxism. History texts were rewritten to eliminate any mention of Holy Mother Russia, the Orthodox Church, the Czars or Peter the Great. The new understanding of the world included “equality,” “fairness” with no differences in gender.

Women worked the same as men. Children were raised in government day care and educated by the state. Loyalty to the Communist Party was demanded above family....