Victors don't necessarily write the history, but they greatly influence what part of history survives and how it is presented to the general public. Trying to

Victors don't necessarily write the history, but they greatly influence what part of history survives and how it is presented to the general public. Trying to get rid other cultures herritage is quite a common activity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_destroyed_heritage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_destroyed_heritage History classes in primary and secondary school are often extremely light on any criticism of the own nations past if mentioned at all. In my own case in Switzerland, some things we were taught were outright lies, fabricated by a historian from Zürich almost a century earlier to promote patriotism. The European colonial period is another thing that got completely misrepresented for example.