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Is history always written by the victors?
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Content: In the Greek New Testament the early followers of Jesus took those identities on themselves as well. Unfortunately, the Christians became major oppressors a few centuries after that. Some of us who are sticking with the church are working to undo that false (but long) step. Share
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I am reading Andrew Weatcroft's 's The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburg, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe (see also here ). It contains this relevant statement in relation to a (from some perspective) loosing party rewriting history: Of course, once the great [Ottoman attack on Vienna in 1683] failed,  history was rewritten and the sultan portrayed as wisely dubious from  the outset and latterly wholly innocent of his duplicitous servant's  machinations. That servant was Kara Mustafa, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Mehmet IV, who survived the battle in the remote West but not its aftermath closer to home: he was strangulated on orders from the sultan, his co-loser in (and according to this source perhaps the co-initiator of) the failed campaign. Share
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The Spanish Civil War is an example of loser-dominated historiography.