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Old 26-Jun-2007, 11:28
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Default Re: to look back on/to or vs. review

I agree with many things you have said but I still believe that unfortunately history is what we remember. Being able to know whatever happened in history, in every detail, would be every historian's dream but this is not possible. Of course, history being what happened in the past is immutable, but unfortunately we can not know that history.

As for the language issue, if I understand, to revise history means what I wanted to say, doesn't it?
How do you call Holocaust-denial? Is the word revisionism ok?
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