iron curtain

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English - English
A barrier made of iron in the theatre, lowered between the stage and the auditorium for safety or to prevent communication
Any impenetrable barrier
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" to refer to the boundary in Europe that divided Soviet-dominated eastern and central Europe from western Europe, which was free from Soviet domination
an impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy; used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the demarcation between democratic and communist countries
impenetrable barrier; line of demarcation between Western Europe and the Russian zone of influence; political and ideological barrier that cuts off and isolates an area (especially as the Soviets did with their satellite states)
The iron curtain was the political and geographic separation of Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe and the democratic Western Europe, first warned by Winston Churchill with the outcome of the Second World War This was the front which symbolized the cold war standoff between the United States and the USSR
the boundary between the Soviet bloc countries of Eastern Europe and the West European countries The phrase was first used by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in March 1946
This term was used by Churchill in 1946 to describe the growing East-West divide in postwar Europe between communist and democratic nations
Term first used by Winston Churchill to describe the political barrier which had been erected between the East and West and the creation of spheres of influence
The dividing line between western Europe and the Soviet controlled regions, especially during the Cold War

5 March 1946: From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. — speech by Winston Churchill.

People referred to the border that separated the Soviet Union and the communist countries of Eastern Europe from the Western European countries as the Iron Curtain. the Iron Curtain the name that was used for the border between the Communist countries of Eastern Europe and the rest of Europe. Political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas. Winston Churchill employed the term in a speech in Fulton, Mo., U.S., about the division of Europe in 1946. The restrictions and the rigidity of the Iron Curtain eased slightly after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, though the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 restored them. The Iron Curtain largely ceased to exist in 1989-90 with the communists' abandonment of one-party rule in eastern Europe

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iron curtains
plural form of iron curtain
iron curtain

    Hyphenation

    i·ron cur·tain

    Turkish pronunciation

    ayırn kırtın

    Pronunciation

    /ˈīərn ˈkərtən/ /ˈaɪɜrn ˈkɜrtən/

    Etymology

    () Specialised use of iron curtain. * Used (in German) during World War II by Joseph Goebbels. In English it appeared in telegrams from Winston Churchill to Harry S. Truman in 1945 before being popularized by Churchill in a speech he gave at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri 5 March 1946. (Reference: wikipedia on Iron Curtain, and Nigel Rees, Sayings of the Century on telegrams.)
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