Depends on which story you're telling and how, dunnit?

We are visual beings.
Without the iconography, society will ignore.
Give them the standing statue and put your rewriting of history on it. Then we can read the stories. Blacken the face and it hits home, destroy and it has no ammunition.

Otherwise "History repeats itself, it has to, no-one is listening" (or reading).

Censorship is alt-facts by any name.

There is always a better way. Evangelists don't know that!