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20 Post author: casebash 27 February 2015 11:57AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 06 March 2015 12:25:52PM 0 points [-]

Yes, but it is not fixed by just randomly reading history. Many historians have political agendas, it is unfortunately a profession like that. The main reason is governments, systems needing historical legitimacy. So historians end up being loyal or opposition.