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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 4421333, member: 76863&quot;]That&#039;s true to some extent though it already really depends on what part of history you are talking about.&nbsp; There&#039;s not one answer to who writes history other than the winners overwhelming influence it.&nbsp; For example in democratic open societies you get more of both sides while in Communist nations it generally takes outside research and a while to really get the other side if it ever really comes out. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not as much of an issue in more modern times where real time information constantly comes out, but given enough time passing in the future it could be.&nbsp; If WW2 had gone the other way the depiction of it would be very very different to the point where after enough generations those who knew both sides would fade.&nbsp; Same way with the Revolutionary War, if that had failed the founding fathers would be looked at with disdain the same way the southerners in the Civil War are[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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