My last comment was meant as a joke. I should have made that clearer by emphasizing Poe's Law. My prompt included "this is a joke." Originally, I was only talking about data that shows how people's views of history change over time, whether those changes are true or not. I vaguely remember hearing that statement about ten years ago, and I searched the internet for a trustworthy source to support it.
Continuing our discussion on how perspectives of history change, it might be that Americans deserve even more credit for this historical event than had 70 years ago.
The conversation was about how historical perspectives change over time, but the following comments focused on modern views of a specific historical moment.