Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56

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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56Chosen 16 times as a 'Book of the Year' the top non fiction pick of 2012 'The best work of modern history I have ever read' A. N. Wilson, Financial Times 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 radically different countries to a completely new political and moral system: Communism. Anne Applebaum's

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