From "the Bloodlands" to "New Europe"

Anne Applebaum has written an interesting review of a new book by Timothy Snyder on "Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin", which talks about inter alia the fourteen million people in Poland, Belarus and Ukraine, who have been deliberately killed by Hitler and Stalin during their reign.

What a far cry from a situation today, where Germans pay for the Polish highways... I think that Poles and the West still do not appreciate how far we have come since those disastrous times...