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the statement is inherently wrong. that's a very simplistic way to present bias.
much better than "winners writing history" is "writers writing history."
though, often these two groups are the same people, but not always.

case in point, the US lost Vietnam, yet we only get the US point of view from it.
Genghis Khan was just filled with victory after victory, but is generally viewed quite unfavorably in practically all sources, because his conquests tended to harm the literary classes.

when Rome became an Empire, it can be said the Senatorial Elite lost, and Augustus won, but since most of the historians were part of that elite (or atleast sympathetic to them), the shift of power is more often presented as a bad thing.

tl:dr "Winners write history" is an outdated and flawed trope.
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