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Manipulation of history

Letter January 20, 2019
Left-winger philosophy asserts that the one who controls the past controls the future

TERUEL, SPAIN: We are currently witnessing a great debate on certain historical events. Left-wingers and nationalists are making great efforts to silence part of the events that occurred in history. They also seek to change, distort and manipulate other facts that seem to benefit their ideology. They only seek to indoctrinate all the population using all means of communication because finally what TV, radio, newspapers and the politically-correct propaganda say is truth.

Although what a person says regardless of how true or believable it is matters less because soon an opinion is annihilated by the majority.

If the big manipulable mass accepts the lie that a party has imposed with its powerful means of communication, the lie will pass into history and eventually become a truth that will be told to the future generations.

Left-winger philosophy asserts that the one who controls the past controls the future and who controls the present controls the past. This explains the efforts made to change history by denying some facts and exaggerating others. Hence, it can be deduced that all the previous history as preached was done with the purpose of creating public opinion.

Arturo Ramo

Published in The Express Tribune, January 20th, 2019.

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