Norman Davies quotes

Norman Davies quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“[The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it.”
-- Norman Davies

#Country Quotes #Dies Quotes
“Most Poles are by temperament 'agin'.”
-- Norman Davies

#Temperament Quotes
“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 Quotes #Views Quotes #Mind Quotes
“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 Quotes #Important Quotes #Purpose Quotes

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