Iron Curtain Cool

Right after the Second World War the people in Czechoslovakia were unaware of the horrors that the subjugation by the Soviet Union was going to bring. Most of the industry, which during the war diligently worked for the Nazi occupiers, remained intact, and in fact was able to continue producing such diverse items as the Messerschmitt Bf-109 and Me-262, the half-track personnel carrier Sd. Kfz. 251 (Czech name OT-810) and a number of other aircraft and weapons. Skoda was also quickly reborn, and