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.
LMAO now that you mention it, if I had to recall the Russian Revolution from history class, it would be something like "There was this extremely horny dude named Rasputin who cucked the Tzar and everyone knew he was cucking the Tzar so they overthrew the government out of embarrassment."