Map of Europe showing the Iron Curtain and Cold War political and military pacts across Europe AFP / To stop citizens from fleeing to the West, ...

There is no barbed wire around our campuses, nor armed guards keeping unwelcome ideas out. So there is no "iron curtain." But there is a curtain, and it has its effect.

Europe; The Iron Curtain Is Gone, but Europe’s East and West Are Again Divided Democracy and market economies rule across the continent, but politically the former blocs are drifting apart again ...

The expression “Iron Curtain” is used to describe a metaphorical line drawn across Europe to delineate the countries under Soviet influence or control.

For nearly a quarter century, East and West Germany were completely cut off from another by the infamous Iron Curtain. That all changed in November 1989.

And so Mr. Phillips shows up in Bornholm, a Danish island in the Baltic, which was still being “liberated” by the Soviets when Churchill spoke of an Iron Curtain.

Poland made $43 million in exchange from its ships last year. Agents for the Iron Curtain fleets have snatched away from West German shipowners almost all the $10 million worth of dried-fruit ...

Before the end of the Cold War, the Iron Curtain cut off the Soviet Union from the rest of Europe. Life there was restricted, but as its leaders changed, Western influence began to reach residents.

Blood, Sweat & Tears venture behind the Iron Curtain in the wild new trailer for the upcoming documentary, What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears? As the clip establishes early on, Blood ...

Blood, Sweat & Tears venture behind the Iron Curtain in the wild new trailer for the upcoming documentary, What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?. As the clip establishes early on, Blood ...