What Every Country Leaves Out of Its History

Every country has a page it would rather you didn't read. In 1937 a Soviet official stood next to Stalin at the opening of a canal. Three years later he had been executed, and soon he wasn't in the photo either. France spent decades calling a war in Algeria "events". Canada's railway was finished with a famous photo of the last spike, without the roughly fifteen thousand Chinese workers who built its hardest stretch, and then charged their families up to $500 each to come in. Japan renamed an island and took decades to admit people already lived there. Spain passed a law to forget. Tulsa burned 35 blocks of Greenwood in sixteen hours and left it out of the schoolbooks for eighty years. In China, a date in early June still can't be written down, so people write "May 35th". Britain shipped its most embarrassing colonial files home, or dropped them in the sea. And Germany, the star student of facing up to its past, had a missing page of its own. But somebody always keeps a copy. Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:45 1937 Soviet Union: The Man Who Turned Into Water 2:48 1954 France: The War That Wasn't a War 4:41 1885 Canada: The People Outside the Photo 7:07 1869 Japan: The Island With a New Label 9:36 1977 Spain: The Pact of Forgetting 11:55 1921 United States: The Page With a Hole in It 14:18 1989 China: The Date That Doesn't Exist 16:33 1963 Britain & Kenya: The Files That Went for a Swim 19:12 1904 Germany & Namibia: The Star Student's Missing Page 21:25 Somebody Always Keeps a Copy Watch next: How Every Country Teaches World War II. Subscribe for more history, from the guy who had to put up with it. #History #FunnyHistory #HistoryTextbooks #HiddenHistory #AnimatedHistory #HistoryMiscalculated