Boroda: It wasn't in school history books, as well as many episodes of Civil war in Russia never appeared in the US school books.
The case of many episodes of russian Civil War supposedly missing from american history books (they are not - I checked and american history books on russian Civil War are quite complete, but I grant you the point about the school textbooks - about as much info as soviet history books had on US Civil War) is really because you just cannot fit everything in one book - as you've said.
The case of any mentioning of Berlin Airlift missing from any books available to the public in the Soviet Union was a censorship decision. After all what would they write? "Our attempt to starve the citizens of West Berlin into submission is being disrupted by the humanitarian airlift from the evil capitalists?
Boroda: Berlin was divided into occupation zones (extremely stupid from my POW - why let the "allies" control what we fought for?)...
So you are saying the allies were too hasty with opening the second front and supplying russians with 500,000 heavy trucks, food and other items - they apparently fough completely different unrelated war...
Your words are typical of rabid communust liberators of the time - whatever they capture is theirs. No consideration for little things like self-determination of germans or other nations soviets "fought for".
Midnight,
I guess my English was not up to the task to catch the nuance, sorry.
I hesitate to answer the question, but for you information, the existance of the Berlin Wall was justified by the need to prevent hostile incursions, infiltration of spies, assasins and saboteurs from West Berlin into the land of socialism.
Same justification was given for existance of extensive border guards (reporting to KGB rather then to military). We were raised on many stories of our border guards with their faithfull dogs catching capitalist spies carrying bombs and poison into the Soviet union every week. Never about them preventing soviet citizens from escaping communist paradise.
Also we celebrated the day when we overtook US in production of butter (little did we know that many americans switched frrom butter to healthier foods) and steel, though not in any consumer item made of steel.
miko