unchallenged falsifications

During its lifetime, the Commune had few friends beyond the ranks of its immediate supporters in Paris, and these were rendered fewer by the unchallenged falsifications later put out by the eventually triumphant forces of legality, which spotlighted the bloody deeds of the Commune, while passing over the fact that they themselves had wreaked infinitely greater bloodshed upon the Communard supporters. - The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71 by Alistair Horne - pg 291

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