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re-appear in GDR accusing Chancellor Adenauer of being a militarist. In 1955 he ‘came home’. Sentenced to four years in jail for betraying secrets, he swore he was innocent.

Perhaps the Poles suffered most. The document (left) counter-signed by Stalin, Voroshilov, Molotov and Mikoyan ordered the murder of thousands of Polish POWs in 1940.

Catholic priest Jerzy Popiełuszko was tortured to death by the UB in 1984.

These Home Army men (above) fighting the Germans in the winter of 1944 (below) were all murdered by Stalin’s Communist Poles.

This Home Army fighter emerging from a Warsaw sewer in summer 1944 is about to be shot by the Germans dragging him out.

Picasso’s ‘dove of peace’ was the symbol of Soviet-backed unilateral disarmament groups in the West. When the USSR invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, this dove (above) was behind bars and the slogan read: ‘Socialism, yes. Occupation, no!!!’

On 27 June 1968 journalist Ludvik Vákulík (left) defied the StB and Moscow’s tanks in the streets, publishing a manifesto entitled Dva tisíce slov – two thousand words of protest – signed by seventy leading Czech intellectuals. That took some courage!

A LSO BY D OUGLAS B OYD
    Non-Fiction
    April Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine
    Voices from the Dark Years
    The French Foreign Legion
    The Kremlin Conspiracy
    Normandy in the Time of Darkness
    Blood in the Snow, Blood on the Grass
    De Gaulle: The Man Who Defied Six US Presidents
    Lionheart
    The Other First World War
    Fiction
    The Eagle and the Snake
    The Honour and the Glory
    The Truth and the Lies
    The Virgin and the Fool
    The Fiddler and the Ferret

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