The fall of the Iron Curtain which lifted communist rule across a swathe of Europe was as swift as it was unexpected. Click on the links below to watch and read about the main events in a dramatic and ...

Israel will admit in the next ten months a total of 100,000 Jewish refugees from behind the Iron Curtain, Egypt and North Africa, the largest wave of immigration in any single year since 1949.

How did the Soviet Union impose its communist ideology on central and eastern Europe after the Second World War? From 1945 until the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, citizens of Poland, Hungary, ...