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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" The shores of the Black Sea lend themselves to the literary genre that may be classified as 'cultural pilgrimage,' which is not just a higher form of travel writing but which has the further mission of reporting on present conditions and supplying neglected knowledge. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There is history in condoms, there is history in lampshades, there is history in everything. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Historical change is like an avalanche. The starting point is a snow-covered mountainside that looks solid. All changes take place under the surface and are rather invisible. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" It's our vanity that makes us think that what forms part of our world today must be stable and secure. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "