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Why does a state last a thousand years? Why not 999? Why not a thousand and one? What are the events that finally bring the whole thing down? That is what I am asking.

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States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing.

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All political institutions will end sooner or later. The question is when and how.

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It's our vanity that makes us think that what forms part of our world today must be stable and secure.

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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.

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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 to oppress the general population, in some ways more harshly than it had happened before.

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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.

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Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance.

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Nowadays, it is no longer possible to maintain that the Nazi-Soviet pact of 23 August 1939 was a fiction invented by bourgeois-imperialist enemies. Everyone has seen the film clips of Herr Ribbentrop landing in Moscow, and of Stalin smiling broadly as Ribbentrop and Molotov signed up side by side.

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Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Jews.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: June 8th, 1939

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