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

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" The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option. "

" I first came across the Anders Army story by accident. When I first went to live in Oxford in the 1960s, I discovered that some of my close neighbours had been on the Anders trail. "

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

" Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off. "

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

" The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum. "

" 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. "

" I don't see why a book shouldn't be intellectually sound, entertaining, and fun to read. Historians who write academic history, which is unreadable, are basically wasting their time. "

" 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. "

" In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stifled by universal denunciations, house searches, and preventive arrests. "

" The advance of standard English culture was less assisted by government policy than by the sheer weight, wealth, and number of England's well-established cultural institutions. "

" The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad. "

" So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably saw ancient Britain as an alien land. "

" 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. "

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

" It is important to remember that John Paul II was not an American or a Frenchman. "

" Law and Justice are the most vindictive gang in Europe. "

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

" The Black Sea is Eastern Europe's counterpart to the Mediterranean. "

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

" It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality. "

" Every austerity measure that Cameron and George Osborne make is being presented in Scotland as the English starving us. "

" The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation. "

" Poland was the racial laboratory of the Nazis. This is where they started to put their abhorrent theories into practice. "

" The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be. "

" 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. "

" There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity. "

" 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. "

" The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationalism of member states, and it did so very successfully. "