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In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum gives a groundbreaking background of how Communism needed over Eastern European countries after World War II and altered in terrifying fashion the individuals who came up under its sway. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its shock and joy found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern European countries. Stalin and his secret police attempt to convert twelve radically different countries to Communism, a totally new politics and moral system. In Flat iron Window curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern European countries were created and what daily life was like after they were complete. She pulls on newly opened East Western european archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the very first time to portray in devastating detail the dilemmas experienced by millions of individuals seeking to adjust to a means of life that challenged their every perception and needed away everything they had gathered. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and bizarre aesthetics Applebaum captures in the electrifying webpages of Flat iron Curtain.
