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).
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.
The Berlin Wall and the Iron curtain, its right. :)
Communist nations between the iron curtain and the soviet union were found in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Poland
In the years following World War II, the countries of communist Eastern Europe were often referred to as being "behind the iron curtain." These countries were perceived as a single region based on.... Economic and political characteristics.
The Iron Curtain came down in 1989. No country lies behind it as of 2008.
East Berlin, the capital of the new communist regime of Eastern Germany was not happy with the fact that West Berlin was occupied by the US, Britain and France. This area was the only one behind the Iron Curtain that the Western powers could control.
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).
The term iron curtain was used by Winston Churchill to describe the border between communist western Europe and democratic eastern Europe.
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.
communist and non-communist
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 Iron Curtain.
Uprisings behind the Iron Curtain occurred in 1956 in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
Behind the Iron Curtain - video - was created on 1984-10-23.
Behind the Iron Curtain - album - was created on 1985-10-09.
Uprisings behind the Iron Curtain occurred in 1956 in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.