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IRON CURTAIN: THE CRUSHING OF EASTERN EUROPE 1944-1956

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In the years immediately following the end of World War II, numerous Eastern European countries fell under the control of the Soviet Union. On 5 March 1946, Winston Churchill gave his famous speech in Fulton, Missouri where he stated that “From Stettin in the

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