What countries were behind the iron curtain?

Answer 1

An "Iron Curtain" country was a Communist country in Europe. These included the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Except for Yugoslavia, all these countries were members of the Warsaw Pact.

Iron curtain was a metaphor coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division between the free countries of Western Europe and those of Eastern Europe which were dominated by the Soviet Union under communism. I suppose that an iron curtain country would be one which was behind that curtain, i.e. in Eastern Europe. Some of those would be Poland, Romania, East Germany, and the Soviet Union itself.

The Iron Curtain countries were also known as the Eastern Bloc. Added to the countries above should be Czechoslovakia ( now the Czech Rep. and Slovakian rep.) Bulgaria and Hungary. These communist countries established the Warsaw Pact in opposition to NATO. Though not formally part of either the Eastern Bloc or Warsaw Pact Albania was beyond the Iron Curtain. Whilst Communist, Yugoslavia refused to align with Stalin's wishes, and so distanced itself from the USSR and the Warsaw Pact/Eastern Bloc states.

The Iron Curtain marked the political division of Europe for the forty years or so following the end of WW2 and roughly followed the furthest point of advance by the Allied armies eastwards and the Red army westwards. Basically, where the armies stopped marked the split in Europe. The exception to this being Austria which was mostly liberated by the Red Army who then withdrew in the 1950's. So it was also the physical division of Europe into two spheres - the division marked by a fortified border between east and west making traveling between the two for ordinary people almost impossible. Nowhere was this more visible than in Berlin where a wall separated east and west (often dividing streets and even apartment blocks). Desperate to be free of communist oppression many East Germans tried to cross to the west over the wall. Most were shot in the process.

Ironically, the spontaneous dismantling of the Berlin Wall by east Berliners in 1989 led to the rapid collapse of the communist system in Europe.

The beginning of the end of communism in Eastern Europe wasn't the opening of the Berlin Wall, but rather two events that happened in Hungary in 1989. In June, the Hungarian border command was reduced to a very small unit (something like a Western country's immigration service, rather than a full-blown Communist-style border-sealing unit) and they removed the barbed wire along the Austro-Hungarian border. This was mostly symbolic since the Hungarian premier had granted Hungarians full freedom of travel and started to move toward a democratic form of government, but it brought on the second act, which was NOT symbolic. Under Warsaw Pact rules, citizens of any Warsaw Pact country could travel to any other Warsaw Pact country. After the barbed wire was removed, a lot of East Germans figured they could go through Hungary, which was still a Warsaw Pact nation, to get to West Germany. When the East Bloc was still in operation, any East German who managed to escape to West Germany or the western sectors of Berlin was granted immediate West German citizenship. In September 1989, the Hungarian government announced they'd allow any Warsaw Pact resident to cross the Austro-Hungarian border. Next thing the DDR knew, all its best and brightest were in West Germany. The DDR complained, of course, only to be told by the Hungarians it wasn't the Hungarians' problem the East German government was still a bunch of commie bastards. The DDR government eventually got rid of its major stumbling block to liberalization by firing its dictator Erich Honecker, and the rest is history.

Answer 2

All countries of the Warsaw pact, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungry, Bulgaria, East Germany, Romania, Albania and Yugoslavia at times. Also included would be other communist states, Mongolia, China, North Korea, and North Vietnam. communist-held Soviet bloc countries A+

Answer 3

The Iron Curtain was Winston Churchill's description of the boundary between Communist-governed countries in eastern Europe and democracies in western Europe. On the east of the line were East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Yugoslavia. On the west were West Germany, Austria, and Italy. Actually, when he spoke in 1946 in Fulton, MO, there were no governments in Germany or Austria, only zones of allied occupation. In 1955 Austria lined up with the west.

Answer 4

East side: East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania.West Side: ?

Answer 5

my right nut

Answer 6

Germany