Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956

At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radic…

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