When Ronald Reagan referred to the Soviet regime as the “evil empire,” he was echoing Solzhenitsyn who said the USSR was “the concentration of world evil.”
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitols of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them…