What are some histories written by the losers?
>>18525809It’s not really a history, more like an elaborate power/revenge fantasy, but the book of revelation. It’s just some Jew coping and seething over the Roman occupation (and is also still buttblasted about Babylon).
>>18525848>just some Jew coping and seething over the Roman occupationHe was Greek, and rightly so upset.
>>18525854>He was GreekHe was a Jew. He demonstrates familiarity with second temple Judaism and references the Old Testament more than any other book.>Rightly so upsetI don’t disagree.
>>18525809History is literally written by the old losers every time an empire falls.
>>18525809Most of the History of the American Civil War written before the 21st century was written to one degree or another by the defeated Confederates.The cornerstone of the post-reconstruction political agreement was that the Southern Political and Business class would get off scot-free for all it's crimes and be allowed to both resume their former positions of power and more or less re-enslave blacks, while the North/Federal leadership would propagandize the whole Civil War as just a fun harmless communal picnic where everyone was nice to each other and everyone had a gay old time. In exchange the South would never attempt secession again, never again try to sabotage industrialization outside the south, never try to use the creation of new states to "expand" the south, and never drag the U.S. into another Mexican-American War ever again. This agreement held for about a century until the civil rights movement made it a point to have cameras rolling when White Southerners beat the shit out of them. Now that the oppression of blacks was in front of the whole world on TV it was no longer possible to pretend to be ignorant of the evil of segregation. At this point the post-reconstruction agreement began to unravel because many white voters were no longer tolerating it from their politicians. This gave blacks a small degree of political power, which they used to further raise awareness of all the shit the Confederacy was about. Now that things like the internet have made this information out in the open and the Elite can no longer paper it over the Confederate revision of history has finally died off outside of Mongolian Basket Weaving forums.
>>18525809European Colonialism in generalThe Spanish Civil War
>>18525809A lot of writings on the Eastern Front of WW2 were made by Germans because Soviet information control prevented credible historians from understanding the full picture. It was only after the fall of the USSR and the opening of the Soviet archives that a proper telling of the war there could be made without the self-aggrandising of German officers who insisted that it was All Hitler's Fault.
>>18526169To this day, I still don't understand how the nazi revisionist lie of muh harsh and inhumane Treaty of Versailles has made it into the official historiography of the side that defeated the nazis.
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>>18526174I thought the mainstream view of Versailles was that it was both too harsh (to not piss Germany off) and too weak (to actually break their power).Then again, given the way Hitler's Germany tore up most of the treaty before WW2 even started, would harsher terms have actually stuck?
>>18526181>too weakIf Britain and France had contested the remilitarization of the Rhineland as they were allowed to by the treaty, history could have been very different
>>18526205Yeah, the Iron curtain would extend to the Rhine.
