Posted on 07/25/2024 12:39:28 PM PDT by Starman417
In the old Soviet Union there was a frequent effort to rewrite history no longer useful or harmful to its then- current narratives. Stalin made great usage of altering photos. Here are a couple of examples from the linked article.
Similarly, Vladimir Putin routinely rewrites history.
Polls in the year that Putin came to power showed that three-quarters of his people regretted the breakup of the U.S.S.R. and wanted Russia to win back lost territories such as Crimea and eastern Ukraine. As Figes argues, they were resentful about being told they should be ashamed of their history. They had been raised on the Soviet myths: the great liberation of the October Revolution, the first five-year plan, the collectivization of agriculture, the defeat of the Trotskyites, Soviet achievements in culture, science and technology. Why should they feel guilty? Today, even Soviet-era secret police uniforms are on sale. Putin promptly created his own version of history, combining Soviet myths (sans their communist baggage) with stories from the Russian Empire before 1917, and when the centenary of the revolution came, his government studiously ignored it.Today in the US the left has taken a page out of the book of Stalin and Putin and is rewriting history.
FBI Director Christopher Wray, Newsweek and Time are trying to convince the country that Trump was not wounded by an assassin's bullet.
GovTrack deleted the page rating Kamala Harris the most liberal Senator:
GovTrack, an organization that tracks congressional voting records, confirmed to Fox News Digital it had removed a 2019 web page that ranked Kamala Harris as that year's "most liberal" U.S. senator sometime within the last two weeks.I had to include this amusing bit on entertainment:The self-described "government transparency website" scored Harris as the "most liberal compared to all senators" in 2019, outranking Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren at the time.
In 2021 Joe Biden made Kamala Harris point person for the border. As we shall see, she was in effect, the border czar but now the left has taken out the giant eraser to the truth.
Axios referred to Harris as "border czar" and was crucified for it. They would knuckle under and deleted the assertion.
In 2021 NBC described Harris's role this way:
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he has appointed Vice President Kamala Harris to lead efforts to stem migration across the U.S.-Mexico border, as the administration faces growing political pressure to address a surge in undocumented migrant children unaccompanied by parents.Even Harris herself said....
But, but, but....now they pivot to the new narrative- she was never the border car and was never in charge. Let's see about that.
You can get whiplash from the Putinesque media.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
Pravda 2.0.
No, I'm not Putin you on.
This is exactly why school books - specifically history books - are all online now.
Want a current Encyclopedia? I don’t believe any are in print, everything they want you to know is online.
Thanks to AI history is not written by the victors - it is written by deep state tech companies.
All Hail The Ministry of Truth (updated hourly).
What’s with Putin? I can show you all day long the gaslighting in the West. Just what Putin lies are you referring too? On Ukraine, he has told the truth from the war’s beginning with the CIA coup in 2014 until now. New Green Scam? How many sexes there are? American elections? Iraq? Afghanistan? Russia, Russia, Russia? God? Nope, he’s 100% correct on those issues. Enlighten me.
“All Hail The Ministry of Truth (updated hourly).”
Exactly. And Orwell knew it required an incredibly stupid populace to turn on a dime so quickly.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984
We still have a complete set of Britannicas circa 1996..............
Love the splash.
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