On Tuesday, the whole world will remember how 70 years ago, Adolf Hitler — nine days after signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop nonaggression pact with Josef Stalin — invaded Poland and started World War II. Seventeen days after Hitler invaded western Poland, the Red Army invaded eastern Poland.
Sept. 1 is also the first day of classes in Russia. Hundreds of thousands of last-year high school students will be given a new textbook recently approved by the Education and Science Ministry that contains a highly distorted version of 20th-century history.
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