THE WEEK10d
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe by Anne Applebaum
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11 Chilling Facts About the Cold War
Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban ...
The New York Times16d
The Iron Curtain Casts a Long Shadow Over Germany’s Election
Hamburg Berlin Cologne Frankfurt Three and a half decades after reunification, a line runs through Germany where the Iron Curtain once stood. Instead of barbed wires and dogs, that line now ...
The Economist20d
How Europe must respond as Trump and Putin smash the post-war order
T he PAST week has been the bleakest in Europe since the fall of the Iron Curtain. Ukraine is being sold out, Russia is being ...
Street Sense Media14d
Rolling on the river: To Bratislava, part two
Wendell Williams describes a trip to Bratislava, Slovakia, describing his relationship with a local vendor in whom he sees ...
BBC16d
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 ... influence of Moscow in Eastern Europe. The speech is seen by many ...
On This Day: Winston Churchill gives 'Iron Curtain' speech
Winston Churchill, in a famous speech in Fulton, Mo., stated that a Soviet Union "Iron Curtain" had "descended across" Europe ...