SvennoJ on 12 January 2021
Raised in the Netherlands, and nope not accurate.
The 17th century was glorified, the golden age, the amazing East India Company. Not much about the Dutch practically starting the slave trade in Africa, Khoikhoi massacre, creating Apartheid and the things they did in Indonesia, like the 1740 Batavia massacre and as recent as the 1947 Rawagede massacre. We did get to learn about the bad things France, Spain and the UK did.
WW2 did get a lot of attention, all the bad things the Germans did at least. The USA was painted in the best possible light, USSR the worst possible, We learned hardly anything about Eastern Europe, everything behind the iron curtain was simply a blank.
