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

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" I can just remember the blitz of Manchester, or perhaps my father's tales about the blitz of Manchester. I can remember the blackout, the powdered eggs, and the gas masks. But I think no British person should pretend that being resident in England could count as being in the thick of the action. "

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

" States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing. "

" All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I first heard of General Anders and his army more than 50 years ago. I admired him then, and I admire him still; and I feel a special bond with the men, women and children whom he rescued from hunger, disease, and official abuse. Theirs is a story of endurance and fortitude that gives one faith in the human spirit. "

" The United Kingdom is not, and never has been, a nation state. "

" Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today. "

" Nothing stands still. Everything is moving in some direction or another. "

" It's unimaginable to meet a Pole or a German who does not know about the history of their country. But lots of English people don't know the difference between Britain and England. "

" Europe's fragmentation puts the wider historical picture beyond reach. "

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

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

" 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. "

" One might have thought that 70 years was time enough to work out what really happened in 1939. It isn't the case. Misunderstandings and misinformation abound. "

" The Russian myths of the Second World War are still intact. "

" The most noticeable thing about the Soviet collapse was that it followed a natural course. "

" The last years of fading communism provided an ideal environment for Poland's Catholic Church, which acted as an umbrella for dissenters of all sorts. "

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