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Freed from the conlnes of the Cold War, history is fair game for nationalists, THE WORLDPAPER

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From: World Paper (USA)
Date: 19980409
Author:Stojan Cerovic

Stojan Cerovic
World Paper (USA)
04-09-1998
Two centuries ago, the British writer Thomas Carlyle described history
as 'a distillation of rumors.' Today, the distillery seems to be running
as never before, churning out a product for some markets in which rumor
has reached such a concentration it may poison the future. As always, the
young are the most vulnerable: the history textbooks in Yugoslavian classrooms
arm students with rationalizations for violence instead of real perspective.
Alarmingly, the Internet threatens to flood the market for revised history
with a cheap, accessible-and ...

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