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Lovely metaphor, not remotely true history. This photo is from Paris Match/Daily Mail, 1958. The Algerian donkey was starving to death, so a soldier from the 13th brigade of the French Foreign Legion carried it back to base where it became a regimental mascot named “bambi”
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I’ve recently pitched a radio idea about the power of #FakeViralHistory. We so want this stuff to be true, we retweet without checking any sources. And when historians say “that’s bullshit” people are upset that the fun has been ruined. History often treated as wish fulfilment
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