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That's more or less the default throughout history. The Nazis had to be a deeply horrifying kind of evil to make WWII have a clear good side that contained most of the world's biggest colonial empires
Then the sequel to that was basically Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith ..... where we find out that the enemy we've been fighting is not a nation, or a military but a religious/ideological movement based on faith, wealth and historic power.
In our actual history, it's called fascism, a belief that power and wealth is entitled to only those who take it by force and more often that not, the movement is directly tied to certain groups, races or religions.
Art (if you can call the Star Wars movie franchise art) certainly does reflect life.
It really doesn't take that much to convince people the other side are the bad guys and we're the good guys.
I think you are vastly overestimating both the historical knowledge of people and their ability to act based on objective righteousness.