41 thoughts on “History is not written by victors”
Thank goodness Wes made this video. I hope it reaches more people, it’s such a widespread myth. So many people believe this is true, and it shapes people’s opinions about certain events and therefore their opinions are formed from lies.
Yeah, maybe until global literacy rates sky rocket in our modern era. The amount of deception in our official American history alone leads me to believe the winner writes the official narrative.
Even if it's written by scholars, in the end it amounts to the same thing, whether the Chinese write "the Mongols are massacring and pillaging us" or the victors write it.
Thank goodness Wes made this video. I hope it reaches more people, it’s such a widespread myth. So many people believe this is true, and it shapes people’s opinions about certain events and therefore their opinions are formed from lies.
To fully understand the real motivation for the Holocaust, everyone needs to watch, The Nazi-Islam Alliance Amin al-Husseini WW2.
Yeah, maybe until global literacy rates sky rocket in our modern era. The amount of deception in our official American history alone leads me to believe the winner writes the official narrative.
That might be somewhat true but then explain why so many conquerors have such glowing things written about them and never their flaws
Wouldnt it have been the victors who told the scribes what happened?
History is justified by calling the loosers racists.
Its a figure of speech.
If history was not written by the victors, Veaceslav Molotov should've been hanged next to Joachim von Ribbentropp.
Even if it's written by scholars, in the end it amounts to the same thing, whether the Chinese write "the Mongols are massacring and pillaging us" or the victors write it.
It is in fact, written by the victors.