Title: "History is Written By Victors" is a Foolish Phrase | Shubham Jain
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"History is Written By Victors" is a Foolish Phrase
Nov 30, 2018
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Content: After all, it only takes one dissenter to take down the whole narrative. Some regimes, like North Korea’s, have been exceptionally successful at this. Amid deep surveillance, and strict control on access to information, the public is fed with patently false information: “ South Korea is poverty-stricken,” “North Korea ended WWII,” and “Koreans are a pure and superior race.” But, how far can one go when there’s a little bit of democracy and free speech? China is known suppress all accounts of Tiananmen Square Massacre, but that hasn’t erased the knowledge of the event from the nation. The counterexamples to the phrase are numerous. Japan carried out a brutal attack on China and its citizens during the WWII. But, except maybe by their own people, the attacks were never seen in favorable light. Robert Moses, one of the most successful public official in terms of projects executed, had mastered the art of having media and public opinion on his side.