Should History be erased ?

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This type of thought allows people to keep doing it because no one can remember that it happened. Since the British government's feelings get hurt when we remind them of the approximately one million people who died during the Irish Potato Famine, should we erase that too? It's so easy to deny things when we only have a vague idea of what happened: case in point: Neo Nazis denying that there ever was Holocaust, this was the systematic extermination of approximately 6-Million once living and breathing humans by the Third Reich. Please do not erase these people's memories. BTW Joseph Stalin was way better than the Nazis at erasing people...

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Why?

I can't quite understand those people who call for Churchill's statue to be torn down won't want Mandela's statue to be torn down and will stick up for him and ignore the occasional violence the ANC perpetrated even though Mandela said he would only ever use force as a last resort. Mandela never went on to erase the history of oppression and racism of Aparthied. You don't hear of modern Muslim Egyptians calling the Pyramids and statues of ancient gods to be torn down because they accept its a part of their country's history that they wish to preserve to help people learn and see how society has moved on. There's lots of things in my country's history I don't like and disagree with but I don't want to erase it otherwise the good things will not be remembered as well as the bad things.