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The stupidity of some members of India's increasingly nationalistic ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ....

The Taj Mahal Was Built By A Mughal Emperor

.... apparently knows no bounds. 

Arise Awoke

Abraham Lincoln once predicted that in the USA ....

The 'Great Emancipator' .... Is He Under Threat?

... "We cannot escape our history."

Lost and Found

In a way that neatly illustrates that we are not as clever by half as we think we are .. a couple of statues have now been re-attributed as being the only surviving bronzes by Michelangelo.

Michelangelo's Statues or Dutch Nobodies?

 

I say re-attributed, because art experts in the in the 19th century has been happily convinced that that was exactly what they were, but 20th century art scholars, with that intellectual arrogance and historical revisionism that they have so often portrayed, dismissed this idea, and instead attributed them to an almost unknown Dutch sculptor Willem Danielsz Van Tetrode .... on what grounds its hard to say.

The New Mad Sultan Of Istanbul

Recep Tayyip Erdogan is fast becoming my new 'Gadfather' ..... not only has he beefed up the Presidents role, so that he, and not the prime minister, effectively still runs the Turkish state ...

 

One Of Erdogan's Presidential Palace Complexes

 

.... and he  is now building palaces suitable for his ego and status as the new 'Sultan of Turkey'.  

Historical Revisionism

Historical Revisionism is a process that in the Western tradition, is meant to be a scholarly process of updating the current view of historical events ....

 

Vikings In The West Had A Bad Reputation

.... however there is increasingly apparently a need amongst some scholars, to 'rehabilitate' groups who previously were cast as villains.

Polished Liberalism

There are odd little stories on the web, that don't always get quite the publicity that they deserve .... take this tale from Poland for example. A country that suffered more than most under the Nazi invasion of 1939, and then under the subsequent conquest by the Communists for another 45 years ...... so its the last place on earth that you would expect Adolf Hitler to be honoured.

However the town of Szczesin (formerly Stettin when it was a Swedish town, and German after 1720), Polish from 1945 when it was handed to Poland as part compensation for the Soviet land grab of Polish lands following WWII, has resisted all efforts to perform any historical revisionism, and alter its past. 

To the complete surprise of all the PC western revisionists, the town, which is now a wholly Polish populated city (the Germans of the previous 250 years having been expelled by Stalin's troops), has refused to withdraw the honorary citizenships, that the town councils over the last 400 years have granted to the luminaries of the time. They voted on a proposal to do so, but rejected it in a free vote.

Those luminaries honoured included former German Chancellor Adolf Hitler in the 1930's, and former Soviet Premier, Nikita Krushchev in the 1950's .... both of whom races oppressed Poles. When asked about this rejection, the 'Liberal' (in the way that term used to mean in the UK, before the UK Liberal Party MP's became more left, and less liberal), Council Leader Bazyli Baran said, "They are all dead now, so let's forget about them"

Bazyli Baran - A Very Liberal Politician

In this attitude I commend him, as airbrushing the past is something that the Nazi's and Communists did .... and is now being busily performed by the politically correct and multi-culturalists amongst the western 'intelligentsia'. Given the culture we have in the UK now ... can you imagine any of our councils ever taking such a liberal view?