It's strange to me how so much of this is missing from the US/Canada curriculums, as well as basic civics. In Quebec, for example, their history classes last two years and focus on the last 150 years up to the origin of fur trading. The roots are so, so much deeper than that. Your heritage tells you who you are.

Hitler was a strange, complex character: it was Germany's third act of imperialism aggression. As were Stalin, Mao, Lenin, Mussolini, and even Churchill. We forget there were entire political groupthink systems of the day and it wasn't just some strawman avatar. Not to mention the role of Bolshevism, fascism in England and Spain, the role of Mexico, the collapse of Liberia, communism in Southern Africa, and so on.

My most frequent comment to American buds is my total bewilderment at them not being able to recognise what this woke/BLM/big tech thing is. It's very, very old, and most Eastern European residents know exactly what they're seeing.