Iron Curtain (108 page)

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Soviet soldiers distributing food to German civilians, May 1945

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Széchenyi Chain Bridge, Budapest, summer 1945

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In the ruins of Warsaw, a Polish family’s midday meal … 

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… and a woman selling bread on a street corner, summer 1945

ETHNIC CLEANSING

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Germans expelled from the Sudetenland, awaiting deportation

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German peasants (“Swabians”) on their way out of Hungary

ARMED RESISTANCE

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Polish partisans from the underground National Armed Forces (NSZ), who had fought the Germans and were preparing to fight the Red Army. All of these men were dead a few weeks after this photograph was taken in south-central Poland, spring 1944.  

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A Polish partisan accepts amnesty and turns in his weapons.

ELECTIONS

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Mátyás Rákosi addresses Budapest crowds, 1946.

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The communist party in Łodz, Poland, demonstrates against Western imperialism and Winston Churchill, 1946.

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Election graffiti in Budapest, 1945: “Black Marketeers to Prison! Victory for the Communist Party Means More Bread and More Food!”