Mastering Three Seas

Despite the victorious march of Sovietization and ensuing division of the continent into two halves, as epitomized by the Comecon waterway integration scheme, Czechoslovak engineers on the DOE project never abandoned the ideal scenario of a pan-continental waterways network. They tended to ignore the political barrier of the Iron Curtain that was threatening to detach their dream project from one of the three seas it once boasted to connect. The opening quotation comes from discussions on the DOE canal held in the early 1960s and shows, in condensed form, how the Comecon scheme was accompanied and enlarged by the broader