Europe Wasn’t Built to Be Like This
Schengen is now a symbol of the migration crisis driving the backlash against globalization and the ascendance of ...
BBC5 年
'Cut the Iron Curtain': Germany's 1989 freedom picnic
One afternoon in 1989, 600 East Germans surged through the open Hungary-Austria border An innocent-sounding "Pan-European Picnic" in Hungary 30 years ago made the first rip in the Iron Curtain ...
BBC4 年
The friends who drove a bus behind the Iron Curtain
In the summer of 1968, a group of friends adapted a double-decker bus and took it on a journey to Eastern Europe ... Crossing the Iron Curtain into Hungary was difficult and slow, but for ...
BBC1 个月
Did Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech start the Cold War? – Cold War Britain in 1946
In this short film for secondary schools historian Dominic Sandbrook explains how the phrase the ‘Iron Curtain’ came ... influence of Moscow in Eastern Europe. The speech is seen by many ...
PBS6 年
Truman on the Enemy: Communism
After WWII, Truman watched most of Eastern Europe fall to the Communist "Iron Curtain." "I do not think we should play compromise any longer," Truman wrote.
PBS1 年
The Start of the Cold War
"an iron curtain has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of central and Eastern Europe: Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade ...
BBC7 个月
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain ... in Europe, they also increased tensions with the Soviet Union. This was because the countries of Eastern Europe were ...
culture.pl8 年
Did David Bowie Know Esperanto? The Invented Language of Warszawa & the Eastern-European ...
Written by Bowie and Brian Eno (who composed the instrumental part of the piece), it was an early instance of a Western artist looking beyond the Iron Curtain, a move that inspired many other artists ...