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But Dominic Sandbrook is also writing about something different, which is the wholesale rewriting of history for political reasons by a specific group, on a planned basis. Like countless other factoids, we essentially will them into existence, then buy into the performance. This is the setting for journalist Otto English’s book Fake History. In it, he presents further morsels of fraud, and suggests why they’re both compelling and ubiquitous. In Xi Jinping’s China, any mention of the horrors of the Cultural Revolution or of the Tiananmen square massacre is stamped out because it’s seen as a challenge to Communist party rule. Collective amnesia is what the regime seeks on issues that risk undermining its legitimacy. It’s not enough to throw dissidents in prison or censor information; the past is purged. a b Shermer, Michael; Grobman, Alex (2009). Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?. Oakland, California: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-26098-6.
The Soviets had intended to provide China with an atomic bomb complete with full instructions. After realizing how dangerously unstable Mao was, Khrushchev rescinded the agreement he had made, later regretting that he had gone to such lengths to please Mao. As Zhisui Li observes, Dacianism is a Romanian pseudohistorical current that attempts to attribute far more influence over European and world history to the Dacians than that which they actually enjoyed. [40] Dacianist historiography claims that the Dacians held primacy over all other civilizations, including the Romans; [41] that the Dacian language was the origin of Latin and all other languages, such as Hindi and Babylonian; [42] and sometimes that the Zalmoxis cult has structural links to Christianity. [43] Dacianism was most prevalent in National Communist Romania, as the Ceaușescu regime portrayed the Dacians as insurgents defying an "imperialist" Rome; the Communist Party had formally attached "protochronism", as Dacianism was known, to Marxist ideology by 1974. [44] Historical falsification [ edit ] Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, a scene from which is shown in this fifteenth-century illumination, was a popular work of pseudohistory during the Middle Ages. Wellington fought two battles and won both, outnumbered on both occasions. The only allied victories of 1815 were those at which Wellington was present. The only tactical reverse he suffered was the loss of La Haye Sainte; every other French move against him failed. Hovannisian 2001, p.803. "...the unbending attitude of the Ankara government, in 1995 of a multi-volume work of the prime ministry's state archives titled Armenian Atrocities in the Caucasus and Anatolia According to Archival Documents. The purpose of the publication is not only to reiterate all previous denials but also to demonstrate that it was in fact the Turkish people who were the victims of a genocide perpetrated by the Armenians." harvnb error: no target: CITEREFHovannisian2001 ( help) Some societies are matrilineal or matrifocal but in fact have patriarchal power structures, which may be misidentified as matriarchal.
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Richard A. Burridge states: "There are those who argue that Jesus is a figment of the Church’s imagination, that there never was a Jesus at all. I have to say that I do not know any respectable critical scholar who says that anymore." in Jesus Now and Then by Richard A. Burridge and Graham Gould (Apr 1, 2004) ISBN 0802809774 p. 34
Michael Grant (a classicist) states that "In recent years, 'no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus' or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary." in Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospels by Michael Grant 2004 ISBN 1898799881 p. 200Another example of historical revisionism is the thesis, found in the writings of David Barton and others, asserting that the United States was founded as an exclusively Christian nation. [51] [52] [53] Mainstream historians instead support the traditional position, which holds that the American founding fathers intended for church and state to be kept separate. [54] [55] Unfortunately, such cognitive bias doesn’t always end well. For instance, the Dunning-Kruger effect, when people with limited knowledge think they’re expert in something they don’t really understand. Often denies that there is such a thing as historical truth, clinging to the extreme skeptical notion that only what is absolutely certain can be called 'true' and nothing is absolutely certain, so nothing is true This is a mixed bag that deconstructs "great lies" of history and attempts, with varying degrees of success, to find parallels with the current political reality. The brilliant chapters on the hyper-mythologised version of Winston Churchill and weaponising of WWI/WWII memory in modern Britain will resonate with any Brit who has had the misfortune to question Churchill's legacy or, heaven forbid, neglected to wear a paper flower. I even liked the chapter on the dubious origins of "curry."
I haven’t read Otto English’s book, and am not likely too, if it’s anything like as bad as Sandbrook says it is.Just like with Russia the great nationalised industries by Labour failed and weren’t able to compete any more, Marxism is against competition, so I think my reasoning in general is right, and what is more, we are a shadow of what we were in 1945, that was a lifetime ago and if we continue going in the same direction what is left of our greatness will not last even another lifetime, we are desperately trying to keep England in one piece (this is unacceptable), Corbyn was going to brainwash the kids against our greatness. So I do think that Labour will continue on its journey towards our destruction. It is not a solution, no matter what individually Labour leaders say, their ideology keeps doing the same thing every timne: India was split, the entire Empire was split, Uk was split, after creating a little Empires in England itself with incompatible immigration Labour is going to split England as well, that will be the end. What Marxist Labour is doing pushing us to send more aid money and pushing us not only to let in all the failures of decolonization but even to fly them in straight from the Labour decolonization failures is going to build a new little Empire inside the UK (Labour wants them not to integrate but to keep their valuable failed identities). Then Labour will deal with this little Empire of failures as it dealt with the real thing in 1945 it will split our nation and destroy us, same as it did to our Union after the 1997 landslide. The end game for Labour is the total destruction of England, when that finally happens corks will pop in Moscow!
Jarnac, Pierre (1988). Les Archives de Rennes-le-Château. Editions Belisane. Describing The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail as a "monument of mediocrity" In the end, it’s not those who forget history who risk repeating it, but those who treat it as forged – and frozen – by winners and mad men. When one reads these quotes, it is hard for one to conclude that Mao Zedong was a mentally stable man. Yet the “fake history” presentation of Mao Zedong is that he was a commendable communist leader and political philosopher, who had some sound ideas, whether or not one chooses to agree with him. The Khazar theory is an academic fringe theory that postulates that the bulk of European Jewry are of Central Asian (Turkic) origin. In spite of mainstream academic consensus conclusively rejecting it, this theory has been promoted in Anti-Semitic and some Anti-Zionist circles, arguing that Jews are an alien element both in Europe and in Palestine.Robert M. Price (an atheist who denies the existence of Jesus) agrees that this perspective runs against the views of the majority of scholars: Robert M. Price "Jesus at the Vanishing Point" in The Historical Jesus: Five Views edited by James K. Beilby & Paul Rhodes Eddy, 2009 InterVarsity, ISBN 028106329X p. 61
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