Yes, that's why majority acceptance doesn't come until after corroboration and review in peer journals.
I'm an Elkhart High School Class of 1959 graduate. This was two years after Sputnik in the height of the Cold War. The Soviet Union was the enemy and very little was written favorable to the USSR in the history texts of those days. Before that graduation, in my love for history, I had already completed the my reading of Churchill, Montgomery, Hitler, Heinz Guderian, Eisenhower, Nimitz, MacArthur and every book on WW II in the Elkhart Public Library -right across the street.- I had enough information from those books to reach the conclusion that while D Day shortened the war, it was the massive armies of the Soviet Union that brought the end to the **** reign over Europe and, had we not invaded, they would have ended up at the English Channel. My opinion was booed down by my pears. It took 30 years before Russia was openly acknowledged for their massive contributions in WW II. My prediction after Dien Bien Phu that Viet Nam would become one country free of all outside domination and our getting involved was a mistake also drew jeers, except from Dr. Corbett, my major professor.
