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.
I can't help but look at it and think "I'd rather suffer under an objectively worse system because I don't want any 'urbans' benefitting from my hard-earned money!"