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The phrase "'''ash heap of history'''",((refn|group=n|Alternatively: "dustbin of history", "dust heap of history", "trash heap of history", "garbage heap of history", and "ashcan of history".<ref name = Safire1983>((cite news|last1=Safire|first1=William|title=On Language; Dust Heaps of History|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/16/magazine/on-language-dust-heaps-of-history.html|access-date=13 March 2016|work=The New York Times|date=16 October 1983))</ref>))  is a derogatory metaphoric reference to oblivion of things no longer relevant.<ref name = Safire1983/>

In 1887 the English essayist [[Augustine Birrell]] (1850–1933) coined the term in his series of essays, "Obiter Dicta": ''that great dust heap called 'history.' ''<ref name = Safire1983/>

A notable usage was that of the Russian [[Bolshevik]] [[Leon Trotsky]] referring to the [[Menshevik]]s: "Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!" as the Menshevik faction walked out of the [[All-Russian Congress of Soviets]] on 25 October 1917 in [[Saint Petersburg|Petrograd]].<ref>((cite web|title=The What of History?|last=Liberman|first=Mark|work=Language Log| date=23 December 2011|access-date=23 December 2011|url= http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3654))</ref><ref>Sonne, Paul, ((usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100604142521/http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/the-dustbunnies-of-history/ "The Dustbunnies of History"])), ''The Oxonian Review'' 8 June 2009 • Issue 9.7. ((ISBN|978-0-571-22875-1))</ref><ref>Bertrand M. Patenade (2009) ''Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky'', Faber and Faber, pp. 193–194, 352. ((ISBN|978-0-571-22875-1))</ref><ref>((citation |chapter= 11 Dictator in a Dumpster: Thoughts on History and Garbage |author= Maureen Healey |title= Experiments in Rethinking History |editor= Alun Munslow, Robert A. Rosenstone |edition= illustrated |publisher= Routledge |year= 2004 |isbn= 978-0-415-30146-6 |page= 225 |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=1I4eB-nBhIcC&q=you+are+bankrupts.+Your+role+is+played+out.+Go+where+you+belong+from+now+on%E2%80%94into+the+dustbin+of+history&pg=PA225 ))</ref>((refn|group=n|Trotsky actually said "на [[wikt:свалка|свалку]] истории", "to the dump of history".))

In a speech to the [[British House of Commons]], on 8 June 1982, U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]] later responded that "freedom and democracy will leave [[Marxism]] and [[Leninism]] on the ash heap of history".<ref>((cite web  | last = Pipes  | first = Richard|title=Ash Heap of History: President Reagan's Westminster Address 20 Years Later|date=3 June 2002|url=http://www.reagansheritage.org/reagan/html/reagan_panel_pipes.shtml|publisher=Heritage Foundation|access-date = 13 February 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130917063505/http://www.reagansheritage.org/reagan/html/reagan_panel_pipes.shtml|archive-date=17 September 2013))</ref>

Similar expressions are [https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/sink+into+oblivion"sink into oblivion"], [https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/fall+into+oblivion "fall into oblivion"], [https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/drop+off+the+radar "drop off radar", "fall off radar"].  [[Lethe]], in Greek mythology, a river of oblivion, gave rise to the Russian expression of the same kind: "sink into Lethe" (кануть в лету). 

==See also==
*[[Memory hole]]

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[[Category:Political catchphrases]]
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