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title: "6 Poland Quotes By Norman Davies"
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> [The last years of fading communism provided an ideal environment for Poland's Catholic Church, which acted as an umbrella for dissenters of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/the-last-years-of-fading-communism-provided-an-ideal-environment-for/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

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> [Poland was the racial laboratory of the Nazis. This is where they started to put their abhorrent theories into practice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/poland-was-the-racial-laboratory-of-the-nazis-this-is-where-they/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

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> [Poland is the natural bridge between East and West.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/poland-is-the-natural-bridge-between-east-and-west/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

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> [In 1945, when the Second World War technically ends in Poland, the incoming Soviet army liberates some groups of people but begins…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/in-1945-when-the-second-world-war-technically-ends-in-poland-the/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

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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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/the-official-ideology-of-poland-is-marxism-leninism-which-no-one/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4b/norman-davies-9199_believe_the-official-ideology-of-poland-is-marxi_2820449.jpg)

> [Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles living in the U.S.A., the defeat of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/poland-in-the-1990s-saw-a-surge-of-unrestrained-american-style/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

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## Other authors on Poland

- [Andrzej Duda 25 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poland/andrzej-duda/)
- [Olga Tokarczuk 9 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poland/olga-tokarczuk/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-claire-cameron-24277.jpg) Jaroslaw Kaczynski 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poland/jaroslaw-kaczynski/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-a-o-scott-8515.jpg) Krzysztof Penderecki 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poland/krzysztof-penderecki/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-tusk-30062.jpg) Donald Tusk 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poland/donald-tusk/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-lech-walesa-59232.jpg) Lech Walesa 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poland/lech-walesa/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-marek-belka-63340.jpg) Marek Belka 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poland/marek-belka/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-lech-kaczynski-59231.jpg) Lech Kaczynski 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poland/lech-kaczynski/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-christopher-hitchens-23938.jpg) Christopher Hitchens 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poland/christopher-hitchens/)
- [Aleksander Kwasniewski 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poland/aleksander-kwasniewski/)

## More by Norman Davies

> [All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/all-states-and-nations-however-great-bloom-for-a-season-and-are/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

> [The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/the-law-and-justice-government-does-not-want-a-bunch-of-foreign/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/for-people-familiar-with-eastern-europe-marci-shore-s-the-taste-of/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

> [The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/the-one-certainly-for-anyone-in-the-path-of-an-avalanche-is-this/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

> [Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/young-people-have-to-learn-in-a-cocoon-filled-with-false-optimism/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

> [Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/any-historian-worth-their-salt-should-be-aware-of-wars-conflicts/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

> [It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/it-was-in-the-20th-century-that-national-sovereignty-really-ruled-the/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

> [“Although the rival cereals of rye, barley,oats, buckwheat and millet have continued to exist in Europe, the triumphal march of king wheat was uncontestable”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/although-the-rival-cereals-of-rye-barley-oats-buckwheat-and-millet/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

> [The Russian myths of the Second World War are still intact.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/the-russian-myths-of-the-second-world-war-are-still-intact/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

> [ \[The Poles\] will die for their country; but few will work for it. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/the-poles-will-die-for-their-country-but-few-will-work-for-it/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

> [One might have thought that 70 years was time enough to work out what really happened in 1939. It isn't the case. Misunderstandings and misinformation abound.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/one-might-have-thought-that-70-years-was-time-enough-to-work-out-what/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

> [Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/our-mental-maps-are-distorted-by-who-are-the-winners-of-history-and/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/historical-change-is-like-an-avalanche-the-starting-point-is-a-snow/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/i-can-just-remember-the-blitz-of-manchester-or-perhaps-my-father-s/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

> [One of the few things that can be said for certain about Europe's prehistoric peoples is that they all came from somewhere else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-davies/one-of-the-few-things-that-can-be-said-for-certain-about-europe-s/)

[Norman Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-davies/)

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