I've been reading our modern history textbooks, and it's appalling! They can be divided into two groups: visually appealing but unpleasant to read, and simply unpleasant to even hold. It feels like history is being written by people who have only a superficial understanding of it, gleaned from the same textbooks. Everyone lies as much as they can. And these are supposedly serious people, like Academician Sakharov (lots of boasting, but little knowledge). I recently read: "Temujin's father (who later became Genghis Khan) was a khan of one of the Mongol tribes." This is like calling Ilya Muromets an emperor. Or further: "There were about 100,000 Mongols (referring to the army)." On the next page: