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“History is perhaps correct, but don’t forget, it is written by the victors.”
The above quote is often misattributed to Winston Churchill, but it has been a trope throughout centuries of history.
Churchill used a similar line several times, often an attempt at a joke.
History should be the ultimate judge of his character because he was about to write it.
He reused the line because it worked and it garnered him lots of laughter whenever he used it in his opening address.
Humor hiding the obvious — Churchill was a prolific writer and had full intentions of rewriting history in the way he felt best suitable.
Best suitable for him.
Churchill ended up publishing over 70 volumes of his work during his lifetime, many about WW2 and his own involvement in it.
But love him or hate him, he wasn’t the only leader in history to try to rewrite it to suit his own likeness.
His dabbling in etching historical records didn’t lead to many unfortunate consequences — other than giving people a better impression of him than he perhaps deserved.
