Can Historical Memory Bring Us Peace and Quiet?

... humanity – eventually leads to the desire to remove “unacceptable” peoples from the face of the earth “once and for all”. It leads to the destruction of society, the creation of death camps, the deportation of hundreds of thousands of people and genocide. In recent months, high-ranking U.S. officials have been talking with increasing frequency about “American exceptionalism”. This is a dangerous claim, fraught, like both nationalism and chauvinism, with a policy that will eventually lead to the disintegration of societies. And a fragmented world is fertile ground for wars to break out . Cherish the Memory of Past Victories www.history.com Ilya Ivanov: Wars Humanising ...