History of Poland/peoples Republic of Poland 1945%e2%80%931989

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    “There is no history of how bad became better.”
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    “It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state.”
    —Bronislaw Geremek (b. 1932)

    “But what experience and history teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
    —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

    “The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.”
    —Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)