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Moments Like this Never Last

Border Czechs

After Joseph Stalin and the Red Army drove the Nazis out of Eastern Europe, the continent was left with ill-defined borders and new ideas about who was running shit.

By Pavel Cejka and Tomas Zilvar

Photos Courtesy of the Security Services Archive, Police Museum Prague Archive

Translated By Matthew Blood-Smyth

Heroes of the Iron Curtain