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user-inactivated  ·  2887 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: TIH: May 1, 1960- A U2 Spyplane is shot down over the USSR.

    I'd be curious how they teach it in Russia.

Mostly no. We do get to learn about the Caribbean Crisis concisely, as well as the way the evil West was creeping over "our prominent ally", and we do get to hear about Khruschev banging his shoe at some assembly, but I never heard of the U2, within or without the context of it being the reason of said banging. All I got to learn about it was that Khruschev was promising to show the West "кузькину мать" (intranslatable; means "to act so as to make the recepient party sorry for the actions they've committed") and that a lot of the ordinary citizens of the USSR were disappointed in him as a leader of the country.

You'll surprised just how many common traits the two countries have. From what I figure, the only difference between the two, culturally, is that the US people are outspoken while the Soviet/Russian people prefer to keep quiet, and everything that stems from it.