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Two things I may add. The French Revolution and the American Revolution were the grand finales of murderous political campaigns, land grabbing, and the extermination of entiere villages, regions, and foreign habitats. War crimes were not yet minded. Yet, if we read our history books, those two bloody revolutions were the greatest thing ever since Plato's Cave and Empero Caligula. These are great examples of 'Creative History', where the court historians created fake historical accounts and wrote flattering biographies for the winners, while vilifying the losers as savages and heretics. History is whatever they said history was. What we read today... is mostly fiction.

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