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molotovcocktail
28th September 2011, 14:51
The history books are very critical to to Stalin and the USSR, they write about all the massacres of the communism, but they forget about the european facists like franco. He killed hundreds of thousands, but he is not counting because he fought comunism. Isnt that hypocracy?
Ismail
28th September 2011, 17:41
Yes it is.

This thread doesn't really belong in the "History" forum. Moved to Chit-Chat.
Rafiq
28th September 2011, 20:53
What about the massacres done by the American and British empires? The Americans and British killed and are responsible for the murder of far more people than any regime or empire.
Invader Zim
28th September 2011, 20:57
lulwut... many tonnes of paper have been dedicated to books covering the crimes of fascist regimes. Indeed, the literature on the holocaust dwarfs any other historical topic.
Winkers Fons
28th September 2011, 21:00
I think you are just reading the wrong history books.
GPDP
29th September 2011, 18:36
Stop reading high school history text books.
thriller
29th September 2011, 19:29
I love high school history books. Once I got into leftism when I was 16, reading those books was like watching a season of Seinfeld, hilarious!
thefinalmarch
1st October 2011, 06:03
How can you say that when Seinfeld is shit?
Ismail
1st October 2011, 06:26
The big problem is that a lot of highschool textbook treatments of "history" are really superficial and lame.

This Great Soviet Encyclopedia article on the US Civil War is more informative than probably any US highschool textbook: http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Civil+War+in+the+United+States%2c+1861%e2%80%9365% 2c+and+the+Reconstruction+of+the
Tablo
1st October 2011, 06:34
Yes, the high school textbooks are mostly worthless. I was lucky to have a couple of awesome history teachers in high school that really knew what they were talking about.

Aren't most of the American textbooks from some conservative publisher in Texas?
Agent Ducky
1st October 2011, 06:41
Does anyone else sense some sort of second avatar/reincarnation of tradeunionsupporter?
citizen of industry
1st October 2011, 07:37
I had a high school history teacher who spent three days on WWII and a whole week on the JFK assassination. WTF?

Anyway, all history textbooks are worthless. You can't study history from a textbook, IMO. Ismail's Civil War example - you could spend an entire lifetime studying one event, like a battle. The textbooks are too superficial. History is better self-taught on events chosen by the learner.
Tablo
1st October 2011, 07:46
I had a high school history teacher who spent three days on WWII and a whole week on the JFK assassination. WTF?

Anyway, all history textbooks are worthless. You can't study history from a textbook, IMO. Ismail's Civil War example - you could spend an entire lifetime studying one event, like a battle. The textbooks are too superficial. History is better self-taught on events chosen by the learner.
So true. I never had much interest in history until I started studying it on my own and now I find myself debating with my professors.
thriller
3rd October 2011, 15:28
How can you say that when Seinfeld is shit?

Uhh Seinfeld is not shit, it is THE shit.
the last donut of the night
8th October 2011, 03:21
The big problem is that a lot of highschool textbook treatments of "history" are really superficial and lame.

This Great Soviet Encyclopedia article on the US Civil War is more informative than probably any US highschool textbook: http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Civil+War+in+the+United+States%2c+1861%e2%80%9365% 2c+and+the+Reconstruction+of+the

this is ill