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" Each side tries to legitimize their aims by appealing to history, sometimes selectively choosing episodes and other times just by inventing history. "

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" Traditionally, historians thought in terms of invasions: the Celts took over the islands, then the Romans, then the Anglo-Saxons. It now seems much more likely that the resident population doesn't change as much as thought. The people stay put but are reculturalized by some new dominant culture. "

" Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. The writing, let alone the publication, of political diaries was virtually impossible. "

" I always needle a bit when people say I'm a champion of the Poles, because I've always had a very multinational view of Poland. "

" In the long run, Europe will certainly move toward unification. But it will be a process of push and pull, and there will be resistance. "

" Poland is the natural bridge between East and West. "

" Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense of the pitiless passage of time. "

" Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied. "

" A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood. "

" Why are some things remembered and others forgotten? That is the theme I want to pursue about the Second World War. "

" Transience is one of the fundamental characteristics both of the human condition and of the political order. "

" For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite of its subject matter, delicious. A professor at Yale with much experience in Eastern Europe, she writes with great sureness of touch, weaving personal recollections with intellectual commentary and ideas with emotions, including her own. "

" I find myself sick to death, tired of arguing about details with people who don't know basic facts. "

" I happen to belong to that group opinion which holds the break-up of the United Kingdom to be imminent. "

" Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance. "

" Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles living in the U.S.A., the defeat of communism led many to aim for a lifestyle derivative of Chicago or Detroit. "

" The question is whether a confident Europe will be a rival for North America - or whether they will work together and become a more unified bloc. "

" Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Jews. "

" I do belong to the club which doesn't see a distinction between academic history and popular history. "

" History must give the Poles the principal credit for bringing the Soviet bloc to its knees. "

" It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that. "

" Northern Ireland must, in future, be absorbed into the Irish republic. Wales and Scotland must advance from devolution to full independent status. The four nations of these islands must commit themselves absolutely to the project of a United Europe. "

" Capacity of human societies both to absorb and to discard cultures is much underestimated. "

" In the 21st century, there will probably be a reflex against the disintegration of traditional European culture. What started as a reaction will come full circle, and there will be a return to the roots. "

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" One of the problems in the Ukrainian crisis is that very few Westerners know their history, or if they know it, what they learn is what we call the Russian version of history. "

" In 1945, when the Second World War technically ends in Poland, the incoming Soviet army liberates some groups of people but begins to oppress the general population, in some ways more harshly than it had happened before. "