Students from West Europe, Ukraine, Latvia, Russia, and China sat next to each other at the Royal Academy of Defense Studies in London. Everyone saw European issues from a different perspective. The NATO Defense Academy in Rome is also a Tower of Babel of sorts. A Pole, an American, an Azeri, and a Georgian can sit next to each other. We are to learn to cooperate in an international community.
Students choose their own classes in Western academies.
It was different in Moscow. The syllabus was strictly fixed. Marxism and Leninism was obligatory. Controlled and Uncontrolled Visits Leningrad, 1977. A Polish officer studying at the Military Artillery Academy picks up his son from a Soviet kindergarten.