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Turing wasn't a publicly known figure for many years until a campaign to give him some prominence and highlight the injustices done to him started to get some g
by twelvechairs 2y ago
Turing wasn't a publicly known figure for many years until a campaign to give him some prominence and highlight the injustices done to him started to get some ground. There was a strong gay rights thread to this, which obviously didn't apply to others.
While I agree others should no doubt get credit (Turing's coworkers also), the Computer History Museum and Bletchley Park do a good job (last time I visited) at describing everything relatively impartially. Media (screen and print) could often do a better job though.
- sologoub 2y agoI’m quite interested in the subject, but literally never heard of Rejewski until now and it feels pretty terrible. A lot gets said about other biases, but Poles seem to not get a lot of credit pretty consistently and often get appropriated by the host countries they had to work for. Hope that’s all in the past now…
- p_l 2y agoBecause cold war propaganda, and even some propaganda issues during the war. Bad enough that despite half a million army on the western front, it was effectively banned to take part in London victory parade.
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- bodelecta 2y agoHave a read of the Charge at Krojanty for an example of Nazi propaganda. A myth that perpetuates till very recent.