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The Iron Curtain

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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin

Between 1945-1948 the Soviets under Stalin consolidated their power in Eastern Europe. Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary became part of the "Soviet Bloc" – or "satellite system." Within the communist parties of these countries there were purges to remove national communists - one in four were removed. Yugoslavia under Tito was an exception to Soviet control. It practiced "national communism" and was able to remain independent largely due to western economic aid.

As early as 1946, Winston Churchill saw what was happening. “An Iron Curtain has descended upon Europe”

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Part of M.A.D: The Cold War exhibit