>>63946802Only relevant if you lose. Had you ever heard of the Holodomor before 2022? Most people hadn't, because the winners suppressed it. What about unit 731, the rape of nanking or bataan death marches? Almost unheard of until the last 20 years, as prior to that we had decided as victors that it was more immediately useful to us if Japans crimes were forgotten (figuring that an alienated Japan could swing commie), and so it was. How about the concentration camps run during the Chechen wars? Russia ultimately won, and they decided nobody ought to give a shit, so nobody did. Its a tired platitude that history is written by the victors, but it seems like while everyone quotes it, nobody actually internalizes the implications of it; or maybe they feel for some reason that it doesnt apply in modernity.