I don't blame him in the slightest. I was already aware by then that Russians are taught bullshit from different personal experience. One point though, he went to school after the fall of the Soviet Union, not before.
I'm sure they think that they liberated Crimeea and Donbass as opposed to occupying parts of Ukraine. No wonder the accepted line of thought in Russia is still that the USSR has liberated all these ungrateful nations.
A few weeks ago I watched the police detain a drunk 60-ish Russian man in Prague who screamed at people visiting the protest (against Babis, the prime minister who is directing EU fund money to his corporation Agrofert) that we're "ungrateful bitches" and "we'll [Russians] be back to take what we gave you".
