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
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