Iron Curtain (109 page)

14.
Voting in the Polish countryside, 1947

15.
The communist party triumphant: the Hungarian elite gathers beneath portraits of Lenin, Stalin, and Rákosi, 1949.

MOSCOW COMMUNISTS: HUNGARY, EAST GERMANY, POLAND

16.
Left to right: István Dobi, Mátyás Rákosi, Ernő Gerő, Mihály Farkas, József Révai

17.
Left to right: Wilhelm Pieck, Walter Ulbricht, Otto Grotewohl

18.
Bierut (center) receiving congratulations on his sixtieth birthday

THE CHURCH

19.
The party makes early concessions to the church: Deputy Defense Minister Jaroszewicz marches alongside the primate, Cardinal August Hlond, in a Corpus Christi procession, 1947.

20.
The crackdown begins in Hungary: Cardinal Jószef Mindszenty with an army escort in Budapest, 1947.

THE MEDIA

21.
Soviet soldiers distributing newspapers in the eastern zone of Germany, 1945

22.
Hungarian peasants gathered around their village radio, 1951

YOUTH