Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956
Categories: History
Anne Applebaum describes how the Soviet Union imposed communist rule on Eastern Europe after World War II.
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- Sam Harris: “Her books include Red Famine, Stalin's War on Ukraine, Iron Curtain, The Crushing of”
- Shane Parrish: “At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system.”