This confusion of facts in Marxist propaganda and American school textbooks has led to some amazing, outlandish, and incredible dichotomies and claims. In 2014 for example when the [[Islamic State]] was declared, [[Wikipedia]] claimed that Syria had won its "independence" from France in 1940 when France "liberated" Syria from France. The article has since been cleaned up somewhat, but still leaves more questions than answers for serious students seeking to understand the contemporary Syrian conflict, sans Marxist distortion of terms and historical meaning. | This confusion of facts in Marxist propaganda and American school textbooks has led to some amazing, outlandish, and incredible dichotomies and claims. In 2014 for example when the [[Islamic State]] was declared, [[Wikipedia]] claimed that Syria had won its "independence" from France in 1940 when France "liberated" Syria from France. The article has since been cleaned up somewhat, but still leaves more questions than answers for serious students seeking to understand the contemporary Syrian conflict, sans Marxist distortion of terms and historical meaning. |