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Authors: Anne Applebaum

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3.
Soviet soldiers distributing food to German civilians, May 1945

4.
Széchenyi Chain Bridge, Budapest, summer 1945

5.
In the ruins of Warsaw, a Polish family’s midday meal … 

6.
… and a woman selling bread on a street corner, summer 1945

ETHNIC CLEANSING

7.
Germans expelled from the Sudetenland, awaiting deportation

8.
German peasants (“Swabians”) on their way out of Hungary

ARMED RESISTANCE

9.
Polish partisans from the underground National Armed Forces (NSZ), who had fought the Germans and were preparing to fight the Red Army. All of these men were dead a few weeks after this photograph was taken in south-central Poland, spring 1944.  

10.
A Polish partisan accepts amnesty and turns in his weapons.

ELECTIONS

11.
Mátyás Rákosi addresses Budapest crowds, 1946.

12.
The communist party in Łodz, Poland, demonstrates against Western imperialism and Winston Churchill, 1946.

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Election graffiti in Budapest, 1945: “Black Marketeers to Prison! Victory for the Communist Party Means More Bread and More Food!”

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