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<blockquote>Through Zinn’s looking-glass, Maoist China, site of history’s bloodiest state-sponsored killings, becomes “the closest thing, in the long history of that ancient country, to a people’s government, independent of outside control.” The authoritarian Nicaraguan Sandinistas were “welcomed” by their own people, while the opposition Contras, who backed the candidate that triumphed when free elections were finally held, were a “terrorist group” that “seemed to have no popular support inside Nicaragua.” Castro’s Cuba, readers learn, “had no bloody record of suppression.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>Through Zinn’s looking-glass, Maoist China, site of history’s bloodiest state-sponsored killings, becomes “the closest thing, in the long history of that ancient country, to a people’s government, independent of outside control.” The authoritarian Nicaraguan Sandinistas were “welcomed” by their own people, while the opposition Contras, who backed the candidate that triumphed when free elections were finally held, were a “terrorist group” that “seemed to have no popular support inside Nicaragua.” Castro’s Cuba, readers learn, “had no bloody record of suppression.”</blockquote>

Meanwhile, Zinn  portrays the  American Revolution as creating "the most effective system of national control devised in modern times, and showed future generations of leaders the advantages of combining paternalism with command.”<ref>[http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1493 Howard Zinn's Biased History]</ref>

Meanwhile, Zinn  portrays the  American Revolution as creating "the most effective system of national control devised in modern times, and showed future generations of leaders the advantages of combining [[paternalism]] with command.”<ref>[http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1493 Howard Zinn's Biased History]</ref>

However, consistent with the decontextualized analysis Zinn often uses to indict America  to be a villainous murderer of women and children, he  himself could be considered such as he served in the United States Air Corps during World War II on a bomber crew.  

However, consistent with the decontextualized analysis Zinn often uses to indict America  to be a villainous murderer of women and children, he  himself could be considered such as he served in the United States Air Corps during World War II on a bomber crew.