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by srean 2111 days ago
> History should be taught as it is? No lies.

Not going to happen. History is always written by the victorious and in a way that is more flattering towards the victorious. The way we think of Hitler nowadays, we would be thinking the same of Churchill if WWII went the other way.

https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/rethinking-churchill-...

What we can do instead is to tech people to read history well aware of this bias and mentally correct for it.