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The untold history of Moscow's Metropol hotel serves as a focal point of intrigue and propaganda during WWII. In 1941, as German forces advanced on Moscow, Lenin’s body was relocated to Siberia. By 1945, Stalin had transformed a struggling nation into a superpower. At Churchill's urging, Stalin allowed an Anglo-American press corps in Moscow to cover the Eastern Front, but he imposed severe censorship, forbidding visits to the front lines and contact with locals. The Metropol Hotel became a gilded cage for these journalists, who were treated to lavish caviar and had access to young women as translators. This setup allowed Stalin to control the narrative, suppressing reports on his plans for a Sovietized Eastern Europe and allowing outrageous Soviet lies to go unchallenged. However, the Metropol was rife with intrigue; while some translators served as obedient propagandists, others were secret dissidents who shared the stark realities of Soviet life, risking Gulag sentences. Utilizing British archives and Soviet sources, the role of these women as both propagandists and dissenters is revealed. After the war, as Lenin returned to Red Square, the reporters departed, but the legacy of Stalin's manipulation of the wartime narrative persisted, reflecting ongoing struggles with disinformation and historical falsification in our modern era.
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The Red Hotel, Alan Philps
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- 2023
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