In 1953, two Americans, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, are convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and are sentenced to death. McCarthyism comes to be defined as indiscriminate accusations on the basis of unsubstantiated charges. Explain using evidence. In the Soviet Union, all dissent is violently suppressed. Josef Stalin speaks obsessively of the dangers to world peace and the need for vigilance against internal enemies.
Conformity is enforced by police terror, and by a slavish Stalin personality cult.
For those who do not conform, there is silence and death behind the barbed wire of the gulag, the secret empire of concentration camps. In 1947, Stalin tightens his grip on Eastern Europe. In Yugoslavia, Marshal Tito defies Stalin and breaks away from the Soviet Bloc. At first, the satellites were allowed to find their own paths to Communism. Now Stalin forces the Soviet model on them all.