
Red gild: Schools whitewash communism
Yesterday, Russians celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. Russian are “ambivalent” about their communist history, reports PBS. Last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled a Wall of Grief sculpture that remembers the hundreds of thousands of people killed under Communist leader Joseph Stalin. “This terrible past must not be erased from our national memory and cannot be justified by anything,” Putin said at the ceremony. An estimated 750,000 we