Communism continued in existence long after the concept of the Iron Curtain was established.
iron curtain
the two speeches set the tone for the cold war.
The dangers of communism in his 'Iron Curtain' speech.
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain represented the division in Europe between the West (democracy) and the East (Communism) during the Cold War.
Winston Churchill described the border between the communist Eastern Europe and the West as an iron curtain.
iron curtain
It was erected to keep other countries from interfering. It was supposed to increase communism.
The 'iron curtin' divided the East (Communism) from the West (Capitalism/Democracy). There was no physical barrier (although several physical barriers do exist, such as the Berlin wall), but a political barrier.
William Churchill coined the term iron curtain as the symbolic border between Democratic Europe and Communism.
Such competition before 1989 was impossible in a country with Marxist_leninist ideology. It was ruled by iron curtain of Communism.
The 'iron curtain' was taken from a speech by Winston Churchill at Fulton Missouri in 1946. He was talking about the spread of communism in Eastern Europe and said that 'from Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended over Europe'. He meant that Europe was now split into two zones - East and West. This didn't change until the fall of communism in 1991.