There are so many flavors to revisionism, too: Bold-faced lies, lies in the details, lies by omission, misdirection, sweeping and inaccurate generalizations...and the icing on the cake is that not only did the liars taint history books, they wrote all manner of books not taught in school that try to make things even worse.
I think I read one many years ago that painted the early American settlers as even more brutal and savage and the Indians more peaceful and harmless than in my history books. I also read a homework assignment that made all the Nazis look like demon spawn from hell; and anything positive about them was propaganda they made up.
The worst are ones somewhat based in truth (think the Holocaust) the threads seem to pull apart after looking into it but that’s why discussion is censored and key historical information is buried or “lost” (destroyed).
There are so many flavors to revisionism, too: Bold-faced lies, lies in the details, lies by omission, misdirection, sweeping and inaccurate generalizations...and the icing on the cake is that not only did the liars taint history books, they wrote all manner of books not taught in school that try to make things even worse.
I think I read one many years ago that painted the early American settlers as even more brutal and savage and the Indians more peaceful and harmless than in my history books. I also read a homework assignment that made all the Nazis look like demon spawn from hell; and anything positive about them was propaganda they made up.
The worst are ones somewhat based in truth (think the Holocaust) the threads seem to pull apart after looking into it but that’s why discussion is censored and key historical information is buried or “lost” (destroyed).