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“Polskiego lekarza w niewoli Oświęcimia, polskiego partyzanta w lesie, polskiego chłopa obawiającego się akcji odwetowej nie można sądzić według norm moralności obowiązujących wśród wolnych ludzi żyjących w normalnych czasach, tak samo jak nie można w ten sposób sądzić żydowskich donosicieli, którzy starali się ratować życie, denuncjując swoich towarzyszy, ani żydowskich prostytutek, które pracowały w wartowniach esesmanów. Zarówno Polacy jak i Żydzi byli ofiarami terroru, a ich postępowanie było przez ten terror uwarunkowane.” HistoriaPolskażYdziMoralnośćOswięcim Book:God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 2: 1795 to the Present Source: God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 2: 1795 to the Present
“When the second stage of Stonehenge was built on Salisbury Plain c. 2700 BC, it could not have been called Stonehenge, which is an English name. The English had not yet arrived. The English language had not been invented. The Plain would have been there; but it could not have been named after Salisbury, since Salisbury itself had not been founded. One may deduce that a year equivalent to 2700 BC once existed; but no such date could have been conceived before the birth of Christ or the concept of a Common Era. There was no country called 'France', and nothing equivalent to it; there was no 'England', and there was no 'Britain', and no 'Brittany'. As yet, there were no Ancient Gauls, no Ancient Britons, and no Ancient Bretons. This holds good even if each of those later communities would owe much to the gene pool of their unidentifiable predecessors.” British HistoryStonehengeBritish Isles Book:The Isles: A History Source: The Isles: A History
“The formula Muscovy + Ukraine = Russia does not feature in the Russians’ own version of their history; but it is fundamental.” HistoryRussiaUkraineроссияукраїнаросіяукраинаMuscovyмосковия Book:Europe: A History Source: Europe: A History
“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.” MindBelieveViewsParticularMeetingsRuinsIdeologyOfficialsMarxismPolishPolandMarxism Leninism Author:Norman Davies
“Most Poles are by temperament 'agin'.” Temperament Book:God's Playground A History of Poland: Volume II: 1795 to the Present Source: God's Playground A History of Poland: Volume II: 1795 to the Present
“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.” ImportantPurposeProductsTerrorNationalismConcentrationGenocideProsperousPeasantsUkraineFamineUkrainian Author:Norman Davies