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Cooking From a Polish Country House Kitchen

Danielle Crittenden | Posted 01.29.2013 | Taste
Read More: Polish Tourism, Fall of Communism, Perogies, Polish Cooking, Iron Curtain, Ethnic Food, Danielle Crittenden, From a Polish Country House Kitchen, Ethnic Recipes, Gulag, Pieorgi, Ethnic Cooking, Anne Applebaum, Polish Recipes, Polish Food, Taste News
Danielle Crittenden

2012-11-29-FromaPolishCountryHouseKitchenCOV.jpgFor many of us, the term "Polish cooking" conjures up memories of heavy, greasy dishes: the food of exile and poverty. But as we happily discovered, the new Polish cuisine is not your grandmother's cooking.

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Before There Was Pussy Riot...

Anne Applebaum | Posted 01.21.2013 | World
Read More: Cold War Propaganda, Eastern Europe Communist Youth, Cold War Dissent, Iron Curtain, Eastern Europe Communism, Communist Propaganda, Communist Dissent, Anne Applebaum, Cold War, Cold War History, Communism History, World News
Anne Applebaum

2012-11-21-IronCurtain.jpgEven in a society like Stalinist Eastern Europe, gripped by terror, young people found ways to express their discontent, just as they have so recently in the Arab world and North Africa.

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Dictator's Widow Brands Regime's Victims 'Criminals'

The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 04.03.2012 | World
Read More: Communism, Video, Iron Curtain, Gdr, Eastern Europe, Stasi, Margot Honecker, Erich Honecker, Berlin Wall, Cold War, German Democratic Republic, Fall of Berlin Wall, Soviet Union, World News

Margot Honecker, the widow of East Germany's communist dictator Erich Honecker, has given a defiant interview in which she defends her late husband an...

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Will Vaclav Havel's Legacy Last?

AP | By VANESSA GERA | Posted 12.22.2011 | World
Read More: Communism, East Bloc, Iron Curtain, Vaclav Havel, Romania, Europe Democracy, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic, World News

WARSAW, Poland -- When Czech playwright Vaclav Havel was thrown in prison for his anti-communist writings, life for people across the East Bloc was sh...

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How To Marry A Russian Man In Three Months

GlobalPost | Iva Skoch | Posted 08.01.2011 | World
Read More: Russia, Marriage, Iron Curtain, Relationships, Russia Marriage, Sex, Cold War, Soviet Union, World News

MOSCOW -- Yulia Varra says that when a 50-year-old Russian man looks for a girlfriend, he never considers women close to his age. "He wants somebod...

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Don't Blame Palin, Blame Stalin

Harvey Gotliffe, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Tea Party, Iron Curtain, Bp, Joseph Stalin, John Boehner, Charles Rangel, Arizona Immigration Law, Halliburton, Obama, Cold War, Soviet Union, Wikileaks, Sarah Palin, Gulf Oil Spil, Transocean, Sean Hannity, Nancy Pelosi, Shirley Sherrod, Fox News, Arlington Cemetery, Bill O'Reilly, Pentagon Papers, Naaco, Politics News
Harvey Gotliffe, Ph.D.

For too many years in too many quarters, the name of the game has been blame. It seems that more and more people refuse to accept the responsibility f...

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The Ironic Curtain, a Czech Film Series, Comes To New York

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Prague-Czech Republic, Iron Curtain, Milos Forman, Czech Republic, Fyodor Dostoevsky, New York Czech Center, BAM Rose Cinemas, Brothers-Karamazov, New York News
Brad Balfour

The Ironic Curtain opens with the North American premiere of Pavel Koutecký and Miroslav Janek's intimate documentary, Citizen Havel, about the private and public life of this playwright turned president.

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Tackling European Security in Corfu

Dora Bakoyannis | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Piracy, Foreign Ministers, Iron Curtain, Terrorism, Nato, European Union, Nuclear Proliferation, Osce, Berlin Wall, Europe, World News
Dora Bakoyannis

Today, the renewed commitment from Russia and the U.S. to work on common ground, focusing their relationship on what unites them, creates a momentum we should built on.

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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Already Here!

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Little Odessa, Bp, Iron Curtain, Switzerland, Cote D'Azur, Colorado, Texas, Cannes, Snowmass, Bush, Soviet, Nato, Wealth, Black Gold, Oil, Russians, Billionaire, James Gray, We Own the Night, Cap-Ferrat, Business News
Vivian Norris

The new tool to crush the opposition is funded by a new menace, that of capitalism built on a phenomenal wealth in commodities and oil.

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