"GOD CANNOT ALTER THE PAST, BUT HISTORIANS CAN" --SAMUEL BUTLER

Steve Sailer on history and mass murderers:

Let's be frank: history is not written by the victors. The truth about who writes history isn't well understood, even though it's tautological:

History is written by the writers of history.

What that means, in practical terms, is that if the Ukrainians want their Holocaust to stop being ignored, well, they'll just have to become executive editors and professors of journalism and columnists and historians and movie producers and documentarians and all the rest. The Ukrainians will have to do it themselves. People care about avenging their relatives' victimizations a lot more than they care about fair historical balance.

- posted by Harangutan @ # Friday, April 15, 2005

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