Podcasts that mention 📚 Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum

Um you know it was a it was a process that took you know several decades to to achieve. um it was the destruction of all as I said there was no no independent business no independent economy of any kind in addition to that there were no non-state organizations of any kind either so um when and I wrote a book about this so when the Soviet Union for example occupied Eastern Europe when they came into Eastern Germany and they came into Poland and they came into Hungary at the end of the second world war um one of the first things they did was take over like youth groups and clubs, you know, so the chess club or the um you know or the soccer club or the hiking club um those were not allowed to be independent. So anything that we would call you know what we would call an NGO or a charity or a civil society organization all of those things were taken over by the state.

The speaker (Anne Applebaum) mentions writing a book about the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe and the state's takeover of all independent organizations.

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