Norman Davies Quotes

• [The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it.

  Norman Davies

  Country, Dies

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• Most Poles are by temperament 'agin'.

  Norman Davies

  Temperament

  Norman Davies (2005). “God's Playground A History of Poland: Volume II: 1795 to the Present”, p.467, Oxford University Press

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• 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.

  Norman Davies

  Believe, Views, Mind

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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.

  Norman Davies

  Ukraine, Important, Purpose

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