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The Iron Curtain was a metaphor for the Stalin's seemingly impenetrable partition of Europe between an authoritarian east and democratic west. Among the most symbolic manifestations to the Iron Curtain was the Berlin Wall.

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Not only this but the "iron curtain" was the dividing boundary between the Communist nations of Eastern Europe and the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe.

People behind it were communists.

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the political and economic division between the democratic west and the communist east

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Was the iron curtain an actual iron curtain?

No. It was like invisible, there were only military forces. The term "iron curtain" was just a metaphor.


What does it mean that there is iron curtain across the continent?

It is a metaphor coined by Winston Churchill in the years after WW 2, when the Soviet-dominated Communist countries in eastern Europe closed their borders to Western Europe to their own citizens. It was as though the Communist countries were behind a curtain, an iron curtain.


What was the term that described the dividing line between communist Eastern Europe and non COnmmunist Western Europe?

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Gorbachev is given credit for ending the Iron Curtain.


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What did Wiston Churchill mean by an iron curtain and what did it separate?

The iron curtain was an official border (not really iron or a curtain) in the middle of Germany. Its made it clear that West Germany and East Berlin had their own side of the country. But now, they are all one country, Germany but Berlin IS the capital.


Was Romania part of the iron Curtain border?

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Did Romania border the iron Curtain countries?

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