The Berlin Wall was the most famous section of the Iron Curtain and became its symbol. In 1952 Soviet-satellite East Germany constructed a 10-metre-wide (39-feet) barbed wire buffer along the ...

It was the symbol of the Soviet Union’s Iron Curtain, trapping millions of people in a tragic socialist experiment. The wall became an emblem of the Cold War, as well, ...

Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the European Union is turning the Iron Curtain into a 4,225-mile (6,800-kilometer) cycling trail to bolster bike tourism.

The so-called Summit for Democracy manipulated by the Biden administration exposed a descending "iron curtain" of Neo-Westernism. This Neo-Westernism is an updated version of Atlanticism which ...

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956, by Anne Applebaum, Doubleday, 608 pages, $35.00. Time's 1956 Man of the Year, chosen at the last minute, was an anonymous Hungarian ...

An economic and cultural iron curtain is descending on Russia as President Vladimir Putin proceeds with his invasion of Ukraine, reversing decades of integration with Western economies and ...

For nearly three decades, the wall stood as a symbol of the Cold War. In the 1980s, ... It’s the first physical raising of the Iron Curtain. Credit: U.S. National Archives. AUG. 19.