They may have. We weren't there and they're all dead so I don't care. The communist playbook tells the empty aliens to keep cherry picking history and throwing it into our faces to shame us for things we didn't do and can't defend because we weren't there. It abusive behaviour. The upside is that when they wrote the rules, there was no internet and people couldn't dg though history and throw their lies back in their face. The Chinese couldn't, the Russians couldn't and neither could anyone else. The result is that getting a better historical education by their own means is becoming more and more normal. All the things erased out of the school education by the American Historical Association under the control of the Rockefeller foundation is coming back.