I don’t know about in Russian schools, but I went to a Chicago Public School for nine years where we had to learn a language. So, I was in Russian. My parents chose it because I entered kindergarten in 1990, so right around the time of the break up of the Soviet Union. Our teacher was from Kiev, and while we mainly learned about the language, there was a bit of CCCP history. I remember hearing a lot about how people were very poor and the government wouldn’t do anything for them, never a glorification of the government. Like someone said above, educational systems tend not to glorify their shady pasts. Also, it helped that our teacher came from the country and had first hand experience with how the government did not work. Now, had we been in the CCCP learning this stuff, I’m sure we wouldn’t have heard about the poor and suffering. We would have been taught to love the government.