It is Brecht's influence that explains the relatively bare and unnaturalistic stage design, since Brecht insisted on keeping props and sets to a bare minimum so that the spectator is not lulled into a false sense of realism. ...

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At Yalta, the Allied leaders, known as the Big Three, met to plan the last stages of the Second World War and agree to the subsequent territorial division of Europe. ... Neither leader had suspected that Stalin intended that all Popular Front governments in Europe would be taken over by communists. ...

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