How history will view us...

[CountArach]

The discussion is utterly pointless. We will be viewed in history according to how the ruling political force at the time wants us to be viewed. After we are gone, we are completely at the mercy of future politicians, intellectuals, rights groups, religious groups, etc. If they choose to, we will be angels, or if they choose to, we will be devils. Truth rarely troubles historians and to this day most of what we believe about history is a construct created by social, political, and religious victors.

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(Except the bolded statement, to which I take great exception, being an aspiring historian...)