Whitewashing is the shell that the successful person puts on for himself after success.
History is in this layer of shell, has become the familiar history, but the real history is very different from people's historical common sense, in order to popularize the real History of the United States, the British in 2019 produced the documentary "The Great Lie in American History".
The documentary consists of three episodes, through interviews and presentations, by the host Lucy to expose the ideas that the documentary wants to express.
At the beginning of the show, Lucy expresses her opinion that "history is sometimes composed of lies", the first episode tells the story of the Revolutionary War in American history, the second episode is the Civil War, and the third episode summarizes the whitewashing of history by the United States after becoming the hegemon.
The first was the War of Independence, an eight-year war that was the foundation of a free and equal America in history textbooks, but it is undeniable that the origin of this war, the "Boston Tea Pour", was not just a merchant against the Tea Tax Act of the British Parliament, the event itself was destroying private property.
At the same time, there were many Americans in this war, but according to historical research, most of these Americans were from literary works, and the original meaning of the Statue of Liberty representing independent thought was only to sell goods to Egypt, because it could not be sold, it became a symbol of independence.
Even the phrase "equality for all" in the Declaration of Independence is a slogan.
Because Washington himself was a great slave owner, Washington continued to enslave him twenty years before the Outbreak of the Civil War.
The Civil War to emancipate slaves was not initially for freedom, but for the collision of capitalism and the farm class, and the North promulgated the Declaration of the Emancipation of Black Slaves in order to be able to raise enough soldiers.
"Abolition of slavery in rebel states."
This sentence is a good example of the southern states, as long as the southern states can not rebel, then they can legally enjoy slavery, after the Civil War, the black people did not get what they should have is a good example, and at the same time as giving the black people rights, the United States did not give the black people new land, in order to be able to cultivate, the black people can only borrow money from their former masters, it seems that everything has not changed much.
The documentary does not interview all blacks, but rather takes place in historical stories and interviews with people of different skin colors.
Looking at the history of the past from an objective perspective, it is not difficult to find that Lincoln is not as great as in the story for black people.
Lucy's last episode is a good interpretation of American hegemonism, from the beginning of World War II, to the subsequent arms race with the Soviet Union, and even to this day, the United States is still constantly strengthening its own armaments.
In order to shape its position in the hearts of the people, the United States rarely appears in its own mainstream media such as "compromise", just like the "Cuban Missile Crisis" mentioned in the documentary, and the headline in the US newspaper in this incident is "President Kennedy surrendered to Khrushchev".
But in reality, the United States and the Soviet Union compromised, with one withdrawing missiles from Cuba and the other withdrawing from Turkey.
After all, "The Great Lie in American History" is a documentary produced by the British, and many of its ideas must also have the prejudice of britain to look at the United States, but the real history has long been impossible to study.
But the lies in history will last longer than the real history, and the truth is not necessarily the truth, but the lie must be the lie.