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Q: What does it mean when countries were behind the iron curtain?
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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 did behind the iron curtain mean?

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What does the metaphor iron curtain mean?

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.


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.


What country was not one of the iron curtain of the cold war era?

Poland wasn't an iron curtain during the Cold War era


What did it mean to be behind the iron curtain in 40's and 50's?

Very harsh because it was isolated and there was no outside contact. Your family might lived on the other side so you coudn't see them. Christmas no presents from family in the other side.


What are names of the players who made up the Iron Curtain?

The players who made up the Iron Curtain were Lev Yashin, Djalma Santos, Nilton Santos, Franz Beckenbauer, and Bobby Moore.


What does 'a new dark age has descended upon the continent' mean from the speech of Winston churchill?

This is from the famous 'Iron Curtain' speech made by Winston Churchill at Fulton Missouri in 1946. He was talking about the increasing Soviet influence in eastern Europe. He also said in his speech, "from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended over Europe".


What are synonyms for curtain?

drapes, draperiesThe curtain has overtones of keep out Mean you have what secret hide


How did the iron curtain occur?

the berlin wall was mean and sovjet and usa hated each other and also war happened and war not good it killed many people on cuba


What does impenetrable mean?

The steel curtain


A mixture of iron filling and sulfur can be easily separated by?

I assume "iron filling" is supposed to mean iron filings? In this case, I would use a magnet to separate the two. The iron filings will stick to the magnet, leaving the sulfur behind.