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History "likes" winners.

@onhwy61 , that is because "History" is written by the winners.

Had the British won the Revolutionary war, the South won the Civil war, or Germany won WWII, our history books would be very different, yet the "good guys" would have still won.

Of course, the "good guys" always win in the history books, because the books are written by the winners. ;^)

Very interesting link between Nelson Pass and Joseph Stalin......

As an historian I can tell you that the history wrote by the winners is usually
only read by people in the "winners" countries .

(Had) Germany won WWII, our history books would be very different, yet the "good guys" would have still won.

Norman Spinrad: The Iron Dream"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Dream

And, of course Phillip K Dick: "The Man in the High Castle"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle

Actually, the South has won the battle of history.  "The Birth Of the Nation" and "Gone With the Wind" sealed the deal.  True, it's not popularly called the War of Northern Aggression, but for generations the cause of the war -- the continuation and geographic expansion of slavery -- was obscured by arguments about states rights.  Just this past week our President made statements minimizing the importance of slavery in the conflict.  To this day there are more U.S. military bases named after confederate leaders than Northern generals.

Genghis Khan is generally considered the worst mass killer in history, but Caesar's Gaul campaigns probably put him over the 1 million killed milestone.  I don't know for a fact, but as a percentage of the population that may actually put him "ahead" of the big league 20th century tyrants.

How come Emperor Hirohito gets a pass.  Military deaths, war crimes and starvation in the Pacific/SE Asia war area approach 10 million and that doesn't include their actions in China.

Let’s not forget Khmer Rouge (Cambodia)

Khmer Rouge - Wikipedia
Wikipedia › wiki › Khmer_Rouge
Jump to Number of deaths - In 2014, two Khmer Rouge leaders, Nuon Chea and Kheiu Samphan, were jailed for life by a UN-backed court, which found them guilty of crimes against humanity and responsible for the deaths of up to 2 million Cambodians (Khmer), nearly a quarter of the country’s then population, during the "Killing Fields" era between 1975 and 1979.