History is continuously rewritten, whether by scholars updating their assumptions, activists reframing the record, or politicians massaging collective memory for their own ends
Aerospace workers wear Long March replica uniforms for a photo in Yan’an, China, May 8, 2018. A wave of misleading revisionism has become epidemic in both autocracies and democracies. It has been notably effective — and contagious. Image: Bryan Denton/The New York Times
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