I live in Belgium and at my university we
do study the cold war. We have a class called modern history, everyone has it and it's mainly about the world after WW2.
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1) Propaganda about your race/country (ie. we rock, they suck)
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Exactly the opposite over here. We don't have "patriotic" history classes. We know that one of our former kings ordered mass murders in Congo. We know our King during WW2 almost chickened out.
That's why we also know JFK was a power-hungry president who wasted a lot of cash on weapons at a time the SU wanted to stop the race in weapons.
Or that the US supported dictators who ran Cocaine plants during the cold war. Or that they supported Saddam, Osama Bin Laden, etc...
We look at
everything with a more critical view.
These are the reasons why a lot of Europeans sometimes critize the US. Because it seems that a lot of the "normal" Americans don't know the "less pleasant facts" about their history.