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The Alamogordo Test

Edit The American Spectator 14 Apr 2016
Either Donald Trump or Ted Cruz would fail the Alamogordo Test. This could spell disastrous defeat in any general election ... We want a President we can trust with that terrible weapon! ... In 2012, Gov ... Churchill, it should be remembered, did not call Russia our enemy in his carefully laid out “Iron Curtain” Speech of March 5, 1946 ... Sen ... Obama ... Ironically, it was FDR who ordered the carpet-bombing of Germany in World War II and it was Dwight D....

In Memoriam of Imre Pozsgay (1933-2016) (Hoover Institution)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Apr 2016
Pozsgay's role in the so-called round table talks with the opposition and his cosponsorship, along with Otto von Habsburg, of the Pan-European Picnic of August 19, 1989, during which hundreds of East Germans visiting Hungary were able to cross the previously impassable Iron Curtain into Austria, made him the most popular Hungarian politician of ......

Slovakia - Europe's Best Kept Secret

Edit Huffington Post 14 Apr 2016
The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918 introduced a wave of changes, including the establishment of Czechoslovakia (1918-1938), followed by the first Slovak state under German hegemony (1939-1945), the post-war coup and imposition of communist rule (1948-1989), the collapse of the Iron Curtain and inauguration of independence in 1993, and the 'return' to the European family via European Union membership in 2004 ... ....

Why Hitler called us 'those Cincinnati liars'

Edit Cincinnati 13 Apr 2016
VOA-Bethany Station located in West Chester sent American message behind the Iron Curtain ... ....

Epidemic of wall building in Europe is a sign of failure (The University of Kent)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Apr 2016
(Source. The University of Kent). In a paper entitled 'Back to the Wall ... As examples, Professor Sakwa, an expert on Russian and European Politics, cites the war in Ukraine, which is accompanied by the fortification of its border with Russia, while the Baltic republics are creating the foundations for what is an embryonic new 'iron curtain' dividing the Atlantic community from Eurasia ... Original Document ... (noodl. 33044775) ....

Hungary Risks Losing Investment on Labor Scarcity, Chamber Says

Edit Bloomberg 13 Apr 2016
Hungary’s economy is at risk of losing investment as dissatisfaction over available labor more than doubled in the last five years, according to an annual survey of executives by the German-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce ... The scenario is playing out across the region stretching from the Baltics to the Balkans, where cheap labor and untapped markets lured tens of billions of euros in investment after the fall of the Iron Curtain ... ....

How do we live with ourselves? Spring TV's pricks of conscience

Edit Entertainment Weekly 13 Apr 2016
For more than a season, Nina Krilova (Annet Mahendru), a disgraced KGB agent, has been stuck behind the Iron Curtain doing perverse penance, using her powers of seduction to spy on comrades or manipulate them ... she tried to get a note to his family ... More ... O.J ... O.J ... A tale of heroic reawakening, Pine’s night manager is an ironic anti-Bond and a different kind of dark knight that moves us away from the current obsession with superhero noir ... ....

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán receives American writer Nicholas Gage (Government of the Republic of Hungary)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Apr 2016
In 1948, in the village of Lia near the Albanian border, his mother was executed by the partisans for trying to rescue her children from the camps behind the Iron Curtain and take them to their father in America....

Bill Shorten's call for royal commission into banks an election stunt

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 11 Apr 2016
But he didn't ... It is also exposes a lack of understanding of the importance of banks in a free-enterprise system ... It re-engineered the communist banks that had been behind the Iron Curtain ... The essential element of the EBRD policy was to reinvigorate the economies of those countries that were kept behind the Iron Curtain by giving them access to the funds they needed to grow their businesses ... Advertisement ...   ... ....

Polish workers in UK worry about possibility of Brexit

Edit The Seattle Times 09 Apr 2016
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people whose personal fates hinge on whether Britain leaves the European Union or stays don’t even have a say in the matter. Polish immigrants, a community so numerous that Polish has become Britain’s second most-spoken language. When Poland and many other countries once behind the Iron Curtain […]> ... ....

Purge at Poland's renowned stud farms pits politicians against rich and famous

Edit The Guardian 08 Apr 2016
Spate of sackings at state-run enterprises have endangered the reputation of Poland’s globally revered horsbreeding industry ... Related. The conspiracy theorists who have taken over Poland . Christian Davies ... “The stud’s existence provides thousands of jobs ... Twitter ... Twitter ... During the cold war, the stud discreetly supplied the world’s elite from behind the Iron Curtain, providing a valuable source of hard currency to the communist regime ... ....

British horse breeder threatens to sue Polish officials for mare deaths

Edit The Guardian 08 Apr 2016
The two horses died while in care of Poland’s prestigious Janów Podlaski stud, to which Shirley Watts had loaned them ... Her two surviving mares, which are pregnant, are being transported home from eastern Poland to Halsdon stud with urgency. Related ... Twitter ... During the cold war, the stud discreetly supplied the world’s elite from behind the iron curtain, providing a valuable source of hard currency to the communist regime ... She said ... ....

Genscher – Master diplomat who oversaw the modernisation of Germany

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 07 Apr 2016
Hans-Dietrich Genscher 1927–2016 ... Genscher, who led the liberal Free Democrats for 10 years, was probably the first senior Western politician to see Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms as foreshadowing real change in the Eastern bloc ... And with the shake-up in the Kremlin ending the career of the veteran Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko, he became the most experienced statesman on either side of the soon-to-disappear Iron Curtain ... ....
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