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The term "Iron Curtain" dates from after the WW 2 and Nazi era. The eastern European countries behind the so-called curtain were dominated by the Soviet Union.
East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria
An 'iron curtain'
The Iron Curtain is a term that was coined by Churchill during his speech on March 5, 1946. Its not actually a curtain, its made up of different countries between the Soviet Union and germany.
The Iron Curtain was a term coined in the years after the war by Winston Churchill to describe the Soviet Union's control of the countries of Central Europe. "From Stetin on the Baltic, to Trieste on the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended upon the Continent," Churchill spoke in a famous speech in Saint Louis, MO, after the war.
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.
His description was an 'Iron Curtain' had descended upon Soviet controlled territories .
it depends in which side of the curtain are you if you are on the east side ... then behind the curtain was the west capitalism if you are on the west side . behind the curtain was the east comunism
THe countries "behind the iron curtain" were: GDR (German Democratic Republic), Poland,Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania. Of course it was not a curtain, but Churchill referred to the dividedness of Europe with this word: the capitalist and the communist part of it.
The area under Soviet control during the Cold War was commonly referred to as the "Eastern Bloc." This included countries such as Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania.
The iron curtain was a product of the Soviet union and the spread of communism through eastern europe through the 1950s and 60s. There was a gigantic ideological and economical divide between communist eastern european countries and the capitalist western european countries. The communist countries were believed to be behind an "iron curtain" as Winston Churchill put it. The biggest physical symbol of this was the Berlin Wall.
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