Joseph Stalin imposed what Winston Churchill would call the Iron Curtain after World War II. The figurative curtain separated Soviet-controlled Warsaw Pact countries from NATO led and neutral countries.
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No. It was like invisible, there were only military forces. The term "iron curtain" was just a metaphor.
Yugoslavia and Albania were the cracks in the iron curtain.
Russia was on the other side of the iron curtain-and the main reason why it was created.
The iron curtain was just a term used to symbolize the wall between the east and western countries. It was not a real curtain.
There was no such thing as an "Iron Curtain" (a curtain made of iron). The name was simply a symbolic term representing communist countries, with the USSR primarily being the center focus. Consequently, the term "behind the iron curtain" meant being in a communist nation (primarily meaning the USSR).