Synopsis
The impact of the Iron Curtain on nature in Europe.
- Programme: Europe: A Natural History
- Episode: The New Millennium
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2007
- History | Conflict and tension between East and West, 1941-1991 | The origins of the Cold War, 1941-58 | Early tension between East and West
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