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Milan Kundera

“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.”

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
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