Anne Applebaum’s Iron Curtain: The
Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 totally
undercuts the revisionist notion that the Sovietisation of Eastern Europe was a
response to American belligerency. Roosevelt and then Truman, according
Applebaum, were essentially bystanders during the Sovietisation of Eastern
Europe. Iron Curtain
convincingly demonstrates that Soviet-style communism, operating in the vacuum
created by the collapse of the Nazi Empire, obeyed a totalitarian logic all of
its own.
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