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History is not always written by the victors—but they usually get the louder, longer-lasting version.Victors control official records, monuments, education, and media in the immediate aftermath. Losers' accounts are often suppressed, destroyed, or marginalized. Yet over time, suppressed voices resurface through archaeology, diaries, oral traditions, exiled writings, and later scholarship. Many "defeated" narratives eventually challenge or even replace the original victor’s story (e.g., Vietnam War in American consciousness, indigenous histories, post-colonial revisions).The phrase is more proverb than iron law: power shapes history, but truth has a stubborn habit of leaking through the cracks.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_is_written_by_the_victors https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30933718 https://www.historyextra.com/period/general-history/history-is-written-by-the-victors-myth-quote/

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