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Said an 'Iron curtain' was slamming down
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Winston Churchill
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Imposed Soviet hegemony over Eastern Europe
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Joseph Stalin
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His ‘Little Red Book’ permeated a communist superpower
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Mao Zedong
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Warned against a US "military-industrial complex"
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Dwight Eisenhower
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Balkan communist leader who defied Soviet influence
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Josip Tito
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U.S. president who set up the CIA
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Harry Truman
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Soviet secret policeman who killed and imprisoned millions
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Lavrenty Beria
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His dystopian novels warned against totalitarianism
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George Orwell
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Led his country's communist north to armed standoff on 38th parallel
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Kim Il-sung
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American general whose aid plan propped up European democracies
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George Marshall
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Smuggled the West's nuclear secrets to Moscow
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Klaus Fuchs
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His 'politics of grandeur' complicated West's Cold War ties
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Charles de Gaulle
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Cosmonaut whose flight accelerated the space race
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Yuri Gagarin
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Declared himself a Berliner on Cold War's chilliest front line
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John Kennedy
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Led his southeast Asian country in Cold War's biggest proxy conflict
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Ho Chi Minh
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Brandished his shoe at the U.N. general assembly
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Nikita Khrushchev
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The CIA may have planned to sabotage his cigars
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Fidel Castro
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His 'red scare' Senate hearings tried to weed out communists
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Joe McCarthy
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East German leader who had the Berlin Wall built
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Walter Ulbricht
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CIA chief who staged coups in Iran and Guatemala
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Allen Dulles
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The KGB's 'third man' in MI6 before he defected to Moscow
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Kim Philby
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American general who urged US to nuke China during Korean war
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Douglas MacArthur
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Chinese premier masterminded Beijing’s Cold War diplomacy
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Zhou Enlai
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CIA accused of killing this leader to stop Congo turning communist
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Patrice Lumumba
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Maniacal scientist who learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
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Dr. Strangelove
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American surveillance pilot downed over USSR
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Gary Powers
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Crystalised Cold War Mideast splits by nationalising Suez Canal
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Gamal Abdul Nasser
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He went to China, upending US policy
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Richard Nixon
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French thinker who quit Communist Party after Hungary rising
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Revolutionary pin-up shot dead in Bolivia
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Che Guevara
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Star Soviet dancer who defected in Paris
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Rudolf Nureyev
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Soviet leader who sent Red Army into Afghanistan
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Marxist fugitive who kidnapped OPEC ministers
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Carlos the Jackal
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Middle East president who gave USSR a Mediterranean naval base
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Hafez al-Assad
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American practitioner of realpolitik who sought Soviet detente
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Henry Kissinger
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He installed a pro-West dictatorship that ruled Indonesia for decades
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Suharto
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Soviet writer whose novels exposed Gulag prison system
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Elected South American leader ousted by CIA-backed general Pinochet
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Salvador Allende
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He refused early release from 'Hanoi Hilton'
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John McCain
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Staged a communist coup in Ethiopia and declared "red terror"
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Mengistu Haile Mariam
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'Solidarity' union leader who led his country after Cold War
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Lech Walesa
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His “Star Wars” programme threatened new arms race near Cold War end
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Ronald Reagan
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His Cold War spy novels showed moral ambiguities of conflict
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John Le Carre
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Brought free market reforms to communist power but no political relaxation
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Deng Xiaoping
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Saudi who helped West-backed rebels battle the Soviets in Afghanistan
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Osama bin Laden
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His reforms as economy declined could not avert Soviet collapse
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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World leader who served as a KGB spy in Cold War Dresden
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Vladimir Putin
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She said of the last Soviet leader: “We can do business together”
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Margaret Thatcher
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Warsaw Pact leader summarily executed as his regime fell in 1989
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Nicolae Ceausescu
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Reunified his country as the Cold War ended and iron curtain fell
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Helmut Kohl
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