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Quote by Milan Kundera

Discussion in 'Books & Publications Forum' started by North Carolina Tentmaker, Oct 6, 2013.

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I came across a quotation today that I found amazing. My paternal ancestors came from Prague and I have been studying Czech literature recently. This comes from Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.

This was written from France in 1975 after the communists had exiled Kundera. His writing was banned in Czechoslovakia until the fall of the communists in 1989.

Nations are destroyed by first robbing them of their memory. Their books are destroyed, their learning, their history. And then someone else writes different books, gives them a different kind of learning and invents a different history.
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Kind of puts what we see in the American Public School system's approach to history cirriculum in perspective.

#1 North Carolina Tentmaker, Oct 6, 2013

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