{"id":135,"date":"2022-07-27T01:21:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T01:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memora8ilia.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/27\/she-spent-a-decade-writing-fake-russian-history\/"},"modified":"2022-07-27T01:21:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T01:21:26","slug":"she-spent-a-decade-writing-fake-russian-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memora8ilia.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/27\/she-spent-a-decade-writing-fake-russian-history\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"npf_row\">\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"465\" data-orig-width=\"700\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/4012f238aa64265e419f224f2f5cee59\/d00ab2a5f0ac1d64-6c\/s640x960\/479eda370533d576e518e98a7545492bfd2f1341.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"465\" data-orig-width=\"700\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u275d For over a decade, a Chinese woman known as \u201cZhemao\u201d created\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixthtone.com\/news\/1010653\/she-spent-a-decade-writing-fake-russian-history.-wikipedia-just-noticed.-?source=channel_rising\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a massive, fantastical, and largely fictional<\/a>\u00a0alternate history of late Medieval Russia on Chinese Wikipedia, writing millions of words about entirely made-up political figures, massive (and fake) silver mines, and pivotal battles that never actually happened. 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