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Re:Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison t... by Florin_Andrei on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @03:13AM (#22943030)
No. Because education was free, they could make the books harder. They didn't depend on students pumping money into schools. Didn't have to pretend to be "nice".

(I grew up and went to college in the Eastern Bloc.)

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