Iron Curtain - Life Under Soviet Occupation Season 1 Episode 1 In the Grip of Moscow

1944-45. As the Red Army pushes toward Berlin, Stalin seizes Eastern Europe, exploiting postwar chaos to impose communist regimes. Industries are requisitioned, propaganda expands, and dissent crushed through arrests. Marxism-Leninism becomes the only creed. By the late 1940s, the Iron Curtain has fallen, sealing millions under Soviet rule.