Stalin expansionism plan explains why he never returned Eastern Europe to independence of any sort

Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Iron Curtain by the Christian Science Monitor

By Anne Applebaum Doubleday

608 pp. Among most Cold War scholars, there is agreement that both America and the Soviet Union contributed to the Cold War’s beginnings. Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum believes that notion must be revised. “Although Nazi-occupied Europe was eventually liberated”.