THE words "cold war" entered the American language and the language of TIME in 1947. Well before then the fact, if not the expression, was familiar. While the hot war was still in progress, a TIME cover story on Joseph Stalin in February 1945 noted: "The line of Russia's 800-mile military front practically bisected Europe. How much farther west was it going to move? And what went on behind that line?" Ever since, reporting the cold war waged between the Iron Curtain countries and the free world has been a major preoccupation...
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