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churchill warned that the soviet union had cut eastern europe off from the west with an "iron curtain."

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nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.