/lit/ - Literature

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>>4402711
I'm going to partly copy a post I made in another thread that fits here. I don't necessarily aggree with the guy you're reacting to, although I am a first year uni student and the value we attach to opinions of others is far greater than the value we attach to our own opinion on the actual documents/sources.

John Lewis Gaddis recieved the following prizes:
2012 – Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
2012 – American History Book Prize
2011 – National Book Critics Circle Award, Biography
2006 – Harry S. Truman Book Award
2005 – National Humanities Medal
2000 – Eastman Professor at the University of Oxford
1996 – Fulbright Scholar to Poland[29]
1995 – Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1995 – Wilson Center Fellowship
1992 – Harmsworth Professor of American History at the University of Oxford
1992 – Presidency of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
1986 – Guggenheim Fellowship
1983 – Distinguished Professor of Ohio University
1980 – Fulbright Scholar to Finland
1973 – Bancroft Prize
1973 – National Historical Society Prize
1973 – Stuart L. Bernath Prize

And he claims that Sovjets raped more women during and after WWII because they're from an authoritarian regime, whereas the allies didn't rape much because they were raised democrats. that America built an empire with states who wanted to belong to their empire and did so willingly (see pic), that history doesn't really need to be ''correct'' anyways and much much more bullshit where that came from. So really, the most famed ''historians'' are just as full of shit as the average /pol/ visitor.
With this comes also the problem of nationalism. We seem to hate nationalism so much, yet we live in an incredibly nationalistic world, a prime example is America. And it is widely understood amongst historians and other social scientists alike, that the truth destroys nationalism, because you need to lie in order to be proud of your country.

>>4402716
He was named man of the year in 1938, the only thing the Germans had managed by then was the anschlüss (annexation of Austria and Sudetenland) he didn't exactly conquer anything.
>1: To defeat or subdue by force, especially by force of arms.
>2: . to overcome (an enemy, army, etc.); defeat
>3: to acquire by force of arms; win in war: to conquer a foreign land.
The actual conquering started in 1939, with the invasion of Poland. But guess who took man of the year in 1939? None other than Iosef Stalin.

>>4402827
I actually have to read an article from this book for school, I'll read it later so I can actually say something usefull about it.