‘Imagine the Austrian Empire fragmented into a multitude of greater and lesser republics. What a nice basis for universal Russian monarchy’. František Palacký (April, 1848) ‘The Yugoslavs want to take Greek Macedonia. They want Albania, too, and even parts of Austria and Hungary. This is unreasonable. I do not like the way they are acting’. Josef Stalin, 1945 ‘All that the Red Army needed in order to reach the North Sea was boots’.
