Orwell grasped the vital need for real history and he saw how those who lust for power will murder history as their first victim.  Winston Smith, the protagonist in 1984, works in the Ministry of Truth and systematically destroys history so that no clues of its death can even be found.  The virtual elimination of any parts of authentic history that might conflict with the prevailing and politically correct history warps our thinking, usually without us even being aware of our ignorance.    As one example, Turner Classic Movies on January 4, 2016 has a night of films about the Spanish Civil War.  Virtually all the films are propaganda for the Popular Front; they portray the Nationalist side as illegitimate, brutal, and corrupt.  Try to find a film that presents the Spanish Civil War in any other way. History books, especially textbooks, are monolithic in describing that civil war.  Any facts, any scraps of history that might make the case for...(Read Full Article)