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

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" 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. "

" Fifty years would seem to be time enough to prepare a definitive history of the Second World War. In an age of instant data-gathering, one might think that the historians could have arrived at a consensus for interpreting the main events of the war. In reality, no such consensus exists. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" At the end of the Roman Empire, in the Byzantine period, the empire shrinks and shrinks until it consists of one city, Constantinople, and the Ottoman Turks can encircle it. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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