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by TrainedMonkey 4576 days ago
You are confusing things. Mandela was not a terrorist because he won, proper term is freedom fighter. History is always written by victorious.
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No it not. History is written by historians, who are constantly reevaluating primary documentation and the conclusions that were drawn from them by previous generations of historians.
In perfect world yes, but quite often documentation that does not agree with ruling party gets torched.