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The Red hotel : Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the untold story of Stalin's propaganda war

The Red hotel : Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the untold story of Stalin's propaganda war

Book 2024

"In 1941, when German armies were marching towards Moscow, Lenin's body was moved from his tomb on Red Square and taken to Siberia. By 1945, a victorious Stalin had turned a poor country into a victorious superpower. Over the course of those four years, Stalin, at Churchill's insistence, accepted an Anglo-American press corps in Moscow to cover the Eastern Front. To turn these reporters into Kremlin mouthpieces, Stalin imposed the most draconian...