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Although written before all the Black Lives Matter protests this is in some ways related to it. The winners write the history and many statues are put up to supposed heroes even though they often lost albeit valiantly or were latterly accused of preposterous acts to claim victory. We talk of conquests and discovery by European nations when in reality it was all about treasure and land-grabbing in the name of inbred monarchs whose real claim was by any measure, non-existent. Should wars ever be celebrated or slave-traders be heralded however philanthropic they may later become? Probably in their time it was somehow appropriate but it is good to see these figures of oppression and institutional murder being torn down - even people like Churchill. War should never be celebrated and the cawing of the victors is always an ugly song.
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