It's rather fascinating. You go down a rabbit hole and you start questioning whether the ones that won WWII were actually the good guys.
That's the real meaning behind "History is written by the victors".
People that were adults during world war two always quoted that line when younger people asking questions created that dissonance.
And eventually you realize the good guys have been on a loooong losing streak.
There is no "good" in losing. It doesn't matter if their cause was righteous or it aligns with yours. There is only now and what you can do to advance your cause. Don't look to the past and try to glorify the "what if"s. They were losers. But you or your descendants can be the winner if you play the game right.
The people who would seek to create a better world then. If you want to argue the semantics of failure.
Possibly more.
I'm a ww2 history buff since I was a boy.
Didn't take many years for the young me to detect the many spells of bullshit wafting from official history.
Now I casually call the war in Europe a failed slave revolt in every day casual conversations
"We backed the wrong side"--General Patton
The US Army murdered him for that, and covered it up. Bill O'Reilly wrote a great book about it. Patton was one of the most based MFers that ever lived.
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