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Damnatio memoriae (en.wikipedia.org)

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Damnatio memoriae is a modern Latin phrase meaning "condemnation of memory" or "damnation of memory", indicating that a person is to be excluded from official accounts. Depending on the extent, it can be a case of historical negationism. There are and have been many routes to damnatio memoriae, including the destruction of depictions, the removal of names from inscriptions and documents, and even large-scale rewritings of history.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

fuck them both, they're horrible people. But the idea of erasing a person's history after executing them (not even for murder, just treason and anti-soviet activities) is quite dystopian to me.

Can't believe there are people who look at stuff like this then still praise the tyrant.