'>6 When Poles of his generation spoke of ‘normality’, it should be said, they did not mean some earlier pre-communist period of Polish history to which their country could happily revert once the parenthesis of Soviet occupation was closed. What they meant by ‘normality’ was the..…

The final battles would divide Europe for decades between the West and the Soviet-controlled East, the face-off line of the Cold War. . . ..…

But it was always clear from the beginning that Hitler was moving east, not west — toward Soviet Union. ..…

The planes were stationed in airfields like those at Kunsan in South Korea and Kadena in Japan, while many more were placed on aircraft carriers surrounding the Sino-Soviet bloc. Other US jets were located at American bases such as in West Germany. . ..…