cbmilne33 blogger.com feedsIt was the Red Army supplied by the “western democracies” that survived the German onslaught and counter-attacked to seize, occupy and enslave Eastern Europe. The Finns and Rumanians, victims of Soviet aggression, paid a heavy price for attacking the Soviet Union to regain lost territory and exact a little revenge. If this sad episode of human…
At the root of the dazzling revolutionary implosion and collapse of socialism and central planning in the “socialist bloc” is what everyone concedes to be a disastrous economic failure. The peoples and the intellectuals of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union are crying out not only for free speech, democratic assembly, and glasnost, but also…
George C. Minden, who for 37 years ran a secret American program that put 10 million Western books and magazines in the hands of intellectuals and professionals in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, died on April 9 at his home in Manhattan. This is his story.
To the historian of Poland, the history of all Europe looks different. Ordinarily, Eastern Europe is thought to begin somewhere around Prague, with everything beyond relegated to mystery and backwardness. Half a century behind the Iron Curtain only…
