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		mason240 on Dec 7, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Day Mandela Was Arrested, With A Little Help F... No it not. History is written by historians, who are constantly reevaluating primary documentation and the conclusions that were drawn from them by previous generations of historians.

TrainedMonkey on Dec 7, 2013 [–]

In perfect world yes, but quite often documentation that does not agree with ruling party gets torched.

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