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History is almost always more complicated than people's narratives.

Narratives are a model. Some are more accurate than others, but ultimately all of them are just models which simplify history (sometimes in verifiably false ways).



History that is not only innacurate, but conveniently presents the author's least preferred side as gratiously Evil?

We have a word for that: propaganda.




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