@uanews reminds me of #SovietBloc

How I Lost my Past

... History is written, we are told, by the victors and stories that do not fit the pattern narrative are rejected. This is especially the case, I have come to believe, in the United States that has created during the Cold War a formidable machinery of open and concealed propaganda. That machinery cannot be easily turned off....

https://glineq.blogspot.com/2017/09/how-i-lost-my-past.html

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29680492

#BrankoMilanovic #SovietBloc #ColdWar #RewritingHistory