The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history

“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long, that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.” — Milan Kundera