Following WW II, the USSR took control of the nations of eastern Europe which became satellite states, and kept out normal commerce and travel to western Europe. Therefore, as Winston Churchill observed, it was as if an iron curtain had fallen across Europe, sealing off the eastern part from the west.
The Iron Curtain.
technology, economy and military, Western Europe is more advanced in all of these.
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Germany and Ukraine.
There is no exact answer to this question. Different areas of Europe entered the Iron age at different dates. A general guide is:Central Europe: from c. 800BCNorthern and Western Europe: from c. 600BCSoutheast Europe: from c. 900bc
The term iron curtain was used by Winston Churchill to describe the border between communist western Europe and democratic eastern Europe.
The largest underground Iron Ore Mine in Europe is the Kirunavaara mine operated by LKAB in the north of Sweden.
The iron curtain
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Russia.
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