For me, that the Cold War began with the US wanting to stop Stalin's plans of imposing communism on the world. Did anybody else's curriculum portray Trotsky in a positive light? lmao it's funny to imagine the weirdos who write those textbooks were trots.
Personally, I never got much education on WWI and the rise of communism; we just 'glossed over' all of that. Most of my history education (in an admittedly solid public school) was focused around early US history, with some skipping around in the 20th century; presumably, said skipping was to avoid any 'political' landmines.
History and politics classes were always very separate, even in college.
that's how they rob history of relevance and make it boring
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I had one section on the Russian Revolution in my world history textbook. Also a few books on it and 3 Lenin biographies in the library.
We also had to read Animal Farm and other "anti-communist if you completely miss the point" books.
Overall, it seems there were anti-communist or at least pro-individualist tendencies in the education, but enough information available to circumvent it.