The history of the world is probably the most controversial thing that we could have. It all derives from opinions. Because history is a form of telling people before us. They tell their stories in their own way. And eventually that becomes history for us because that is the only way that we could know about our past. And this is where the biggest fundamental flaw of History comes to light. The weakest link in the chain of events throughout the entirety of civilization are humans themselves. They are conflicted, opinionated and have a sense of pride in themselves. Throughout the years, as long as this world has had humans, one has always found the way to put himself above the other. Yes, I do not mean that literally because there were so many people who were so good to their peers and humble and down to earth. These are the people who we today celebrate as some of history's finest men.
But that is besides the point. We were talking about the accuracy of the history. We know. Now I must refer to the most famous saying regarding history, “history is written by the victors”. So no matter how you try you probably will never know the other side of the story. Because the ones who are defeated hardly get the chance to have their say on an event. Obviously most of the history we know across the countries is flawed. For two main reasons one is simply the human’s forgetfulness. There is no perfect accounting of the events that transpire as people often forget or exaggerate or underestimate fed or put their own opinions. Some of them do this deliberately and some of them do it on purpose. And the other is another famous word called propaganda. Propaganda is a sort of story or history that is taught to the people of a nation by the nation's ruler to impose their view of the world to these people of the nation and manipulate them towards their ideologies. So in order to manipulate the people, these rulers tend to tamper history and put their own flavor in it. They omit some events. They exaggerate some events. They carefully make subtle changes that do not change the entire narrative. Those small details add up to a completely different version than what might have actually happened. In my country, for example, the ruling party which was overthrown last year was in power for around 16 to 17 years and during that time it had its own version of history that glorified the party leaders from the past and belittled other people and scapegoated some as well. And I was a younger person back then so I obviously learned this fraud history. Then as time went by, I read more and more books from people of that time but not connected to the ruling party and learned some new point of views of those same events which I had learned from the textbook. And there were discrepancies, which, to put it lightly, were disturbing. Then the government got overthrown and the new one is already making changes to those textbooks which had those flawed histories. And now I understand something more than ever.
They will probably never be the correct history unless it is corroborated by all sides which were involved in an event. In any other situation, all history is flawed because the human mind cannot be objective when it is writing something that involves itself.
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