is an American journalist and author, and a Washington Post columnist. In 2004, she was awarded the non-fiction Pulitzer Prize for Gulag: A History (Allen Lane, 2003). Her latest book, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 (Doubleday, 2012), was nominated for the 2012 National Book Award.
Just because something can’t work or doesn’t work, doesn’t mean people aren’t going to try it, says US journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum: just because it’s a bad idea to break up Europe doesn’t mean people won’t want to try that too.
For many European countries even to start thinking about Russia as a threat, 20 years after the Cold War ended, requires a paradigm shift. So says Anne Applebaum, as she sees political leaders who made their careers in conditions of European peace flounder in the current military crisis.
