I will be in Poland from Thursday to Saturday at a conference on US foreign policy in the Cold War, intervention, and “liberation” in Eastern Europe — issues which have contemporary relevance for the Middle East and Iran.

See Freedom’s War: The US Crusade Against the Soviet Union, 1945-56

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