A journey along the Iron Curtain
Timothy Phillips talks us through his travels along the Iron Curtain, exploring what the border between east and west was like during the Cold War – and what’s happening there today
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Show Notes
In 1946, Churchill declared that “from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent”. But what exactly did this rhetorical border look like during the Cold War, and what’s happening along it today? Timothy Phillips tells David Musgrove about his experiences travelling the length of the border between east and west, exploring the borderlands where a clash of ideologies was at its most intense.
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