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* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': The AesSedai MagicalSociety liberally use their continent-spanning political power to ensure that history doesn't record cases where they showed weakness or poor judgement. During the series, the Aes Sedai have a disastrous schism that sets off an international conflict, has both sides raise armies against each other, and sees one faction [[TyrantTakesTheHelm descend into tyranny]], yet the other faction's leader muses about how quickly they'll be able to get people to doubt it ever happened.

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* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': The AesSedai Aes Sedai MagicalSociety liberally use their continent-spanning political power to ensure that history doesn't record cases where they showed weakness or poor judgement. During the series, the Aes Sedai have a disastrous schism that sets off an international conflict, has both sides raise armies against each other, and sees one faction [[TyrantTakesTheHelm descend into tyranny]], yet the other faction's leader muses about how quickly they'll be able to get people to doubt it ever happened.

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* In Literature/IDoNotWantToDoThis, Gareth Meranas claims to be from the Fifth Age, (the story is set in the Sixth,) and his accounts of contemporary life differ wildly from what history says about the Fifth Age. He suggests that this trope may be responsible.

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* In Literature/IDoNotWantToDoThis, ''Literature/IDoNotWantToDoThis'': Gareth Meranas claims to be from the Fifth Age, (the story is set in the Sixth,) and his accounts of contemporary life differ wildly from what history says about the Fifth Age. He suggests that this trope may be responsible.responsible.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': The AesSedai MagicalSociety liberally use their continent-spanning political power to ensure that history doesn't record cases where they showed weakness or poor judgement. During the series, the Aes Sedai have a disastrous schism that sets off an international conflict, has both sides raise armies against each other, and sees one faction [[TyrantTakesTheHelm descend into tyranny]], yet the other faction's leader muses about how quickly they'll be able to get people to doubt it ever happened.
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* The entirety of ''VideoGame/WeHappyFew'' revolves around this, where the British community of Wellington Wells did "the very bad thing" to defeat the Germans, an act which was so horrifying the entire populace heavily medicates themselves on [[FantasticDrug Joy]] so they'll never remember what they did. While most medicate willingly, it is ''very'' much mandatory as anyone who comes off their Joy, either willingly or unwillingly, is labeled a Downer and either murdered or exiled to the Garden District.
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* The current administration of China also tries its best to suppresses a significant amount of China's more recent history that would make them look bad, such as the disaster known as the Great Leap Forward or the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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* At least one ruler in ancient Egypt actually had their hieroglyphs erased. Akhenaten's attempt to replace the Egyptian pantheon with a single god was so hated, that future rulers tried to deface his tomb. This treatment was also done to Hatshepsut, because she was a female pharaoh, but acted too much like a man.

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* At least one ruler in ancient Egypt actually had their hieroglyphs erased. Akhenaten's attempt to replace the Egyptian pantheon with a single god was so hated, that future rulers tried to deface his tomb. This treatment was also done to Hatshepsut, because she was a female pharaoh, pharaoh UsefulNotes/{{Hatshepsut}}, though the reasons for that are muddied (she and her co-monarch Thutmose III got along, but acted too much like a man.her name was removed and monuments defaced near the end of his reign by either him or by his son Amenhotep II).

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