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Poland works on new ‘Iron Curtain’
Poland plans a 600-kilometre military defence line along its borders with Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad by 2028. The ‘East Shield’ will be equipped with anti-tank trenches, concrete ...
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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 ... as the beginning of the Cold War, as well as asserting the need ...
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Europe Wasn’t Built to Be Like This
The ruptures of 1989 hastened the end of the Cold War, opening the way for a new era of globalization. But the lifting of the Iron Curtain made evident the complexities of abolishing borders ...
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The start of the Cold War 1945 - 55
A symbolic Iron Curtain cut through the middle of Europe: East vs West. It was called the Cold War, as the two sides never directly fought. But they battled each other in different ways.
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The Start of the Cold War
The Iron Curtain For his part ... From what I have seen of our Russian friends and allies during the war I am convinced that there is nothing they admire so much as strength and nothing for ...
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‘I Only Know South Korea Has Fewer Mountains’ – Testimony From Captured Pyongyang POW
the journey of the North Korean soldier to the war zone, and his knowledge of the world behind Pyongyang’s Iron Curtain. Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Screenshot from video ...