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Episode: Ghosts of the Iron Curtain
Description: The Iron Curtain marked the Cold War divide in Europe. What is its legacy and how does this split remain today? Timothy Philips discusses his book The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border with Ros Taylor. After travelling along the border, he explains what it represented and how it is remembered by those who lived along it.
“It was a border developed to stop people in the east from leaving. It got stronger because regimes in the east were frightened young people would flee if they could to the wes...