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, ...

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

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 ...

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.

Towards the end of the 1980s, the political map of the world began to change with the collapse of the Iron Curtain that had divided Europe and the battle of East v West seemingly over.

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.

DOBROHOST, Slovakia — Laszlo Beks leaves off gutting his modest haul of underweight trout and turns his eyes toward the silent marshland as if it held the ghost of a dead friend. “The D… ...

In 1948, Sir Winston Churchill famously warned at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo : “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across ...

Towards the end of the 1980s, the political map of the world began to change with the collapse of the Iron Curtain that had divided Europe and the battle of East v West seemingly over.