Leave it to Davit to come up with a proper solution.
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You can interpret it however you want, that's why I like those kinds of themes.
However for clarification, the saying "history repeats itself" is often used as a way to express that events follow a pattern that will eventually come to pass again, following the same pattern. For example, war is something fairly common in human history, and often follows the same kind of pattern.