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35 years ago, family witnessed history as Berlin Wall fell [I Know a Story column]
The heavily guarded wall became a symbol of the Iron Curtain, with Checkpoint Charlie ... The highlight of our 1989 trip was a special side trip to Berlin to participate in the historical tearing ...
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Fall of Iron Curtain set stage for radical changes in Africa
The coming down of the Iron Curtain, Berlin Wall, tolled for the end of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes that were averse to democracy. The era was heralded by the disintegration of USSR’s ...
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Top Belarusian diplomat accuses West of building new ‘iron curtains’
TASS/. Those who applauded the fall of the Berlin Wall, nowadays welcome new iron curtains, Foreign Minister of Belarus Vladimir Makei said on Thursday, addressing the OSCE Ministerial Council.
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Person of the Year
where the Iron Curtain found literal expression in the form of the Berlin Wall. The shy daughter of a Lutheran minister, Merkel slipped into politics as a divorced Protestant in a largely Catholic ...
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Did Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech start the Cold War? – Cold War Britain in 1946
In this short film for secondary schools historian Dominic Sandbrook explains how the phrase the ‘Iron Curtain’ came into being when, as a guest of President Truman in 1946, Winston Churchill ...