Europe after the second world war The power of red How the Soviet empire’s ambitions contained the seeds of its own destruction Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956. By Anne Applebaum. Allen Lane; 614 pages; £25. Doubleday; $35. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk IN THE spring of 1945 the Polish city of Lodz was swamped with refugees. Local women organised themselves to help. Open