QUICK examples on how governments tried to distort the past,

I'm going to bet this thread will be deleted by the 30 reply mark because /his/ mods only delete /pol/ bait that can potentially yield interesting conversation for some reason.

>>2110636
2 of those aren't history

Rhodesian government insisting that Great Zimbabwe couldn't have been built by blacks out of fear that it would stoke black nationalist sentiment.

>>2110657
He could mean the present and future in relation to when the event happened, autismo.

I wish I could contribute, OP, but amything I can think of is conspiracy nonsense and/or not /his/.

>>2110664
I appreciate the effort. All I have so far is book burning in Ancient China as a way to silence scholars and their ideas on a proper gov.

>>2110636
Pick any period from the history of China?

>>2110734
Err, no. It was just the example for the distortion of the past. I'll have to get into further research later about the book burning.