Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956, by Anne Applebaum, Doubleday, 608 pages, $35.00. Time's 1956 Man of the Year, chosen at the last minute, was an anonymous Hungarian ...

But it is the passage on “the iron curtain” which attracted immediate international attention, ... User-Created Clip by Craig McAndrew April 25, 2017 2006-03-19T00:14:36-05:00 https: ...

Exactly 69 years ago, on Mar. 5, 1946, Winston Churchill stood in a college gymnasium in Fulton, Mo., at the beginning of the Cold War, while President Harry S. Truman sat behind him in a gown and ...

At the end of World War Two, the iron curtain divided Europe. ... (BUND) was created in 1975 and began recording the growing diversity of species and habitats within the ‘death strip’.

SOVIET JEWRY: In the 20th century, the Soviet Jewry movement helped define and form the two largest Jewish communities in the Diaspora, those in the United States and in the Soviet Union.