Wisdom that Can Make a Difference

By Ammoland

By Dr. Earl Tilford

In this interesting article, Dr. Earl Tilford examines the damaging consequences that arise when nations tweak their history in order to feel good about the past. Tilford argues: “There are two ways to approach the future: faith and history.”

Grove City, PA –-(Ammoland.com)- Late in the afternoon of December 25, 1991, Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev resigned, declared his office closed, and handed over the keys to Russia’s nuclear deterrent to President Boris Yeltsin. The next day, the red flag of the USSR came down and the white, blue and red flag flew over Moscow’s Kremlin and the Russian Federation. Shortly thereafter communist scholars completed a multi-volume history of the USSR.

Polluted with propaganda, the official history, like the Soviet Union, ended up in a dustbin of history.

There are two ways to approach the future: faith and history. Both can be misplaced, misleading, and wrong. One can put faith in false gods, or perhaps worse, make a god of oneself. Likewise, history can be forgotten, ignored, and rewritten to support political agendas. That’s what happened during the Soviet Union’s …read more

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