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The US secretly sent communist-friendly Coca-Cola to a Soviet general in a bid to maintain good ties across the Iron Curtain
As World War II ended and the Iron Curtain fell over Eastern Europe, relations deteriorated between the Soviet Union and its Western allies. The Soviet repudiation of the West and of capitalism ...
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Did Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech start the Cold War? – Cold War Britain in 1946
In this short film for secondary schools historian Dominic Sandbrook explains how the phrase the ‘Iron Curtain’ came into being when, as a guest of President Truman in 1946, Winston Churchill ...