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First the Anne Frank graphic novel, now this comment. Fascists really hate the "narrative" of historical truth.
I don't know, historical "truth" is all about focus, editing and which documents, details and context are hidden, lost, forgotten, censored, omitted, overlooked, not even recorded. In the end it is a narrative and can be shaped by bias like a newspaper: you need to read a few different ones to get an idea of what actually happened, unless you lived it and even then it's interesting to see what it looked like to others. What is important is that there is free access to historical documents and information so you can ask questions that were never answered before in textbooks and still get answers instead of an uncomfortable void in some parts.
It's true that it was official policy in soviet-colonized spaces to erase the local culture and power structures, replacing it with Russia's, and paper over what happened with self-serving stories as the story of record. It's also true that this is a thing they have in common with every other colonizer; just as the Europeans colonized the shit out of the Americas, Russians colonized the shit out of the Soviet republics (and their own territory).
Yes, the process of colonizing in this fashion involves the deliberate destruction of inconvenient fact- but saying "we can't know the truth" participates in its erasure.
I didn't say we can't know the truth. I said the truth can't be known if you can't ask questions and don't have free access to investigate the dark past. Some dude even called me a holocaust denier 🤡