The Katyn Massacre is a great example of how narratives change once declassified documents reach the public. This lie was small in comparison to the many others they've kept alive in our history books. The truth comes out eventually.
As far as recent history being taught way differently just look at what younger people say about MLKjr today vs. what their parents taught knowledge on the subject. My mom had saved a bunch of books/almanacs from the 60's and I just received them after her passing this year and even those seem bizarre/unreal to me in many ways just glancing through them.
For decades the story was told that Nazis exterminated a bunch of Polish Jews in the forests. Then somewhere around 1990, the Russians had to admit that it was them that murdered Polish Jews in the forests of Katyn. They dug up some old classified documents that had been sealed since the 1940's and found out that the Russian military had indeed murdered many Jews during and before WWII.
The Katyn Massacre is a great example of how narratives change once declassified documents reach the public. This lie was small in comparison to the many others they've kept alive in our history books. The truth comes out eventually.
As far as recent history being taught way differently just look at what younger people say about MLKjr today vs. what their parents taught knowledge on the subject. My mom had saved a bunch of books/almanacs from the 60's and I just received them after her passing this year and even those seem bizarre/unreal to me in many ways just glancing through them.
Do you have time to elaborate further? What changed about the KM? I am not very familiar with this part of history.
For decades the story was told that Nazis exterminated a bunch of Polish Jews in the forests. Then somewhere around 1990, the Russians had to admit that it was them that murdered Polish Jews in the forests of Katyn. They dug up some old classified documents that had been sealed since the 1940's and found out that the Russian military had indeed murdered many Jews during and before WWII.