Norman Davies quotes - page 3

History is very much bound up in family experience. (Norman Davies)
Poland is the natural bridge between East and West. View quote
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Nothing stands still. Everything is moving in some direction or another. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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All political institutions will end sooner or later. The question is when and how. View quote
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The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be. View quote
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Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama. View quote
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Poland was the racial laboratory of the Nazis. This is where they started to put their abhorrent theories into practice. View quote
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[The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it. (Norman Davies)
The official ideology [of Poland] is Marxism-Leninism, which no one openly admits to believing. For Marx expressed the German view, and Lenin the Russian one, and the meeting of these particular minds has always spelled Polish ruin. View quote
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The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of prosperous peasants at one throw. View quote
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