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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Nearly all interested parties think I write too shortly on the subjects that interest them most. "

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

" I wanted to produce a book that would demonstrate not only the rich diversity of people who answered to Anders's command but also the extraordinary variety of their experiences and emotions: from death to despair, fear and longings and eventually to hope. "

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

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

" The Euro Sceptics are the English National Party in disguise, and they have poor old David Cameron over a barrel. "

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

" One of the few things that can be said for certain about Europe's prehistoric peoples is that they all came from somewhere else. "

" People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s, 'We're doing rather better than my father in the 1770s.' "

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

" 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. "

" None of Europe's modern nations are genuinely native. "

" Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama. "

" Why does a state last a thousand years? Why not 999? Why not a thousand and one? What are the events that finally bring the whole thing down? That is what I am asking. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "