uprising rises again

A few stories of the story of history. And of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising--a two month battle that has yet to end. With pictures! (Download the full article below)
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"The dead in Poland have not been allowed to die and rarely allowed to rest.
An uprising, were there to be one today, would be just as unsuccessful. It is a symbol defined by struggle, not success. A battle based on the Warsaw uprising can only be a strategic failure even, if later, a moral victory.
Its success would be its demise.."

"History on a timeline is only what we’ve been told and comes with a powerless conclusion we’re meant to accept. Now onto the celebrations of defeats and glorious myths that displace history."
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"Nostalgia is a weapon in the fight over or for memory. But nostalgia for a time you did not personally live through is called advertising...or at its worse: politics."

"The stories we are told about the past through museums will eventually become the past. Museums are a dangerous weapon of ideology and memory, not history. Dangerous because they use history to create memory."

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