[Textbooks] "You will die like a cur"

Last year the Ministry of Education approved a new textbook for use in grade 11 classes across the country. The book, Istoriya Rossii 1945-2008, met immediate criticism. One critic called it "a highly distorted version of 20th-century history;" another stated "nobody’s going to learn from this garbage of yours, because it’s horribly written and dark ." One of the book's contributors apparently found this irksome since he responded on his blog: "You will die like a cur, but your children will be learning from the textbook that I will write. And by the way, you can’t have any children, ’cause you’re a bleedin’ faggot."

Background on this spat here.

I now have a copy of it in front of me, purchased at a local bookstore for 190 rubles (~$6). I've only just started to look through it. It's not nearly as interesting as the comments above would lead you to believe, but here's a thought-provoker from the introduction:

We make the proviso that we are opponents of the concept of totalitarianism. This doctrine, equating the Soviet Union to Hitler's Germany, was not and is not an instrument of knowledge, but a weapon in an indeological war. Here it must be clearly acknowledged, that the ideology of Nazi Germany and the ideology of Soviet Russia had nothing in common between them.

Contemplate.