Recently, we've had two Iwo Jima, during WarII, movies,
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especially that Japanese Commander (the movie using him to his wife's letters as the thread line throughout), who shot himself died at the end.
In ancient China, we have,
http://www.chinaschool.org/szzl/special/historycity/yinchuan/html2/n1.htmAlthough, back to the time,
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绍兴十一年八月,高宗和秦桧派人向金求和,金兀术要求“必先杀岳飞,方可议和”。秦桧于是诬岳飞谋反,将其下狱。1142年秦桧以“莫须有”的罪名将岳飞毒死于临安风波亭。宁宗时,岳飞得以昭雪,被追封鄂王。"But he was praised and glorified ever since his time by the entire country for over a thousand years in Chinese history up till this days 虽死犹荣
。秦桧 on the contrary, was looked down and had only a 万世的骂名 left as a malicious little person.