Now, I realize that first WW is very far in the past for today's young. More than 100 years ago. I wonder how they see it? If they find it relevant at all?

It is hard-hard-easy question. On one hand: they dont give a flying f....k! On another hand... I am not sure - does another hand exist at all in this question :/

Right now, exactly last month, my babygirl had this topic within her History lessons (beginning of XX century, WW1, Russian revolution of 1917 etc etc etc). I feel these topics to be urgent and very important (especially in comparison with other history lessons, cause this is what affected the modern history of my poor country SO MUCH!).

I looked into her history textbook; it is frankly bad, it overloads one's mind with a flood of unnecessary names, dates, events - and deprives this entire data array of any cause-and-effect relationships, turns it into tightly compressed and difficult to understand ancient garbage, dusty noise that you want to forget as soon as possible, because.. why should you fill your head with unnecessary, irrelevant, long-dead matter?..

Another important consideration (not specifically related to our youth). Generally speaking, Russians' attitude to WW1 after it ended turned out to be different from that of other Europeans. The reason was not exactly that the war was lost and ended with the shameful separate Brest-Litovsk peace treaty with Germany. This is because WW1 was waged by Imperial Russia, the Imperial army - both were destroyed during the war and then, with the total change of the country's political structure and new Bolshevik ideology - the war was included in the category of "horrific heritage of tsarism". This war was not something to be proud of, they tried to forget it as quickly as possible. No monuments were erected to the war heroes, cemeteries with soldiers were abandoned (and even destroyed, plowed up!), etc. etc. I understand very well that one needs to know his own history, but... alas.