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Originally Posted by Oberon
Oh, I dunno about lying, but we have been known to view things with rose-tinted specs a lot, or only one side of the story. Just ask Tribesman. 
We tend to just skip over bits of history where we were...not very nice people...such as Cromwells jaunt to Ireland, or the Concentration camps during the Second Boer War. |
Possibly in your school books, and ours, but one of the hallmarks of Britain and the US and some other Western countries is that people can freely question the 'official' histories and publish contrary books without fear of jail or censorship. Anybody can publish pretty much anything he wants, which makes it hard sometimes to ferret out the truth, but is still far preferable that having nothing investigated for fear of being sent to the gulag.