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Every nation rewrites its history according to contemporary needs and cherry picks (or creates) sources to support it. A good example of today is Russia, where
by kbart 10y ago
Every nation rewrites its history according to contemporary needs and cherry picks (or creates) sources to support it. A good example of today is Russia, where Stalin cult is resurgent and not so honorable history facts (pact with Hitler, Holodomor etc.) are being suppressed or played down[1].
1. http://www.economist.com/node/10102921 http://www.economist.com/node/10102921
- RyanMcGreal 10y agoNext you're going to tell me that George Washington never actually chopped down a cherry tree! http://www.mountvernon.org/digital-encyclopedia/article/cherry-tree-myth/ http://www.mountvernon.org/digital-encyclopedia/article/cher...
- jessaustin 10y agoThis is explicitly lampshaded in TFA. [EDIT:] Honestly though, since this allowance comes so late and is not connected back to the main narrative, it does undermine the whole mess. Next up, a hard-hitting takedown of Thomas Malory and Alfred Lord Tennyson...
- gritzko 10y agohttp://i.imgur.com/6eUoctT.png http://i.imgur.com/6eUoctT.png The history gets rewritten all the time. It is simpler to define and understand it as geological depositions of bullshit. Archeology is a bit better. (The same, but without the bull- part, literally.)