The main idea of the quote is that the Soviets are tightening their contol over Cnetral and Eastern Europe. The other sentences complete that idea by letting us know what they are doing with Central and Eastern Europe.
Rejecting the South's defense of slavery as “a positive good” and the North's assumption that they bore no responsibility for the peculiar institution, Lincoln used his Second Inaugural Address to propose a common public memory of both the war and American slavery as the basis for restoring national unity.Feb 1, 200
James Wilson
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They would move to another place and move back a few years later
