“Facts are stubborn things.” Obama White House
Sounds like a misquote of Reagan’s quip “facts are funny things”.
Stalinist revisionist history means never having to acknowledge the lessons of the past.
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence".
~~John Adams, 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770 US diplomat & politician (1735 - 1826)