The Road To Helsinki

<p><i>The Road To Helsinki</i> is the history of how Europe stepped back from the brink of a third World War. </p><p> </p><p>Victory in Europe was declared on May 8 1945. On March 6 1946 Winston Churchill delivered his famous “Iron Curtain” speech in Fulton Missouri. It seemed that World War II had not ended. Europe moved immediately into a “Cold War” with armed camps in a divided Europe; but this time with nuclear weapons. The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe signed on August 1 1975 thirty years after VE Day has often been called “The Peace Treaty of World War II”. It was the harbinger of the reunification of Germany the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the expansion of the European Union and NATO. It is a history of great diplomacy and political courage of great statesmen and politicians on both sides of the Iron Curtain.</p>