The brutal tumult of the 20th century turned Eastern Europe, once a melting pot, into a bloc of relatively homogeneous nation ...

Poland has revealed the details of its £2billion-valued 'Iron ... other eastern frontline Nato allies Finland, Estonia, ...

Wendell Williams takes readers with him on the first part of his journey through Eastern Europe over the Christmas holiday.

Unrest swept Eastern Europe, mass protests convulsed the German ... But the lifting of the Iron Curtain made evident the complexities of abolishing borders — and nowhere more so than in Berlin.

Driven by popular demand, independent museums about various aspects of everyday life under communism are cropping up in some of Central and Eastern ... life behind the Iron Curtain followed ...

The Soviets installed governments in a group of countries around themselves for protection and exploitation - a number of Eastern European ... in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended ...

were both part of Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe, while Austria sat to the west of the Iron Curtain. The table is a symbol of unity between the three countries (Picture: Metro Graphics ...

"an iron curtain has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of central and Eastern Europe: Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade ...

After WWII, Truman watched most of Eastern Europe fall to the Communist "Iron Curtain." "I do not think we should play compromise any longer," Truman wrote.

The year 1989 saw a big change. All of Central and Eastern Europe took a U-turn within less than three years and transformed from the gray land behind the Iron Curtain into several independent, ...

A symbolic Iron Curtain cut through the middle of Europe ... Stalin worked on putting Soviet-friendly governments into Eastern European countries, such as Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia and ...