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Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, several initiatives are pursuing the creation of a European Green Belt nature preserve area along the Iron Curtain's former route. In fact, a long-distance cycling route along the length of the former border called the Iron Curtain Trail (ICT) exists as a project of the European Union and other associated ...
Extend the Iron Curtain eastwards of Yugoslavia. Even though Yugoslavia was not really considered part of the West, the currenet map gives the false impression that there was a huge gap in the Iron Curtain, which wasn't the case. 00:56, 23 July 2022: 645 × 690 (321 KB) Kwamikagami: NATO blue, #004990: 20:30, 30 March 2019: 645 × 690 (321 KB ...
Part of the former "iron curtain" in Devínska Nová Ves, Bratislava. After the Second World War the original borders of Czechoslovakia were restored and special police units were established to protect the borders together with the army. At this time the main goal of the border protection force was to ensure that the expelled German civil ...
Little remains of the inner German border's fortifications. Its route has been declared part of a European Green Belt linking national parks and nature reserves along the course of the old Iron Curtain from the Arctic Circle to the Black Sea. Museums and memorials along the old border commemorate the division and reunification of Germany and ...
Monument to the Iron Curtain not far from the border crossing Thayatal National Park in Austria, on the border with the Czech Republic. The European Green Belt initiative is a grassroots movement for nature conservation and sustainable development along the corridor of the former Iron Curtain. The term refers to an environmental initiative as ...
Satellite image of Berlin, with the Wall's location marked in yellow West and East Berlin borders overlaying a current road map The Berlin Wall ( German : Berliner Mauer , pronounced [bɛʁˌliːnɐ ˈmaʊɐ] ⓘ ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German ...
20 countries are part of the Iron Curtain Trail project, among them are 14 members of the European Union. The ICT was lobbied for by German Green Party politician Michael Cramer MEP. Trails have been created and made better suited to cycling with help and finance from the European Union, with historical signposts and markers erected. [3]
The border was still closely guarded and the Hungarian security forces tried to hold back refugees. The dismantling of the electric fence along Hungary's 240 kilometres (149 mi) long border with Austria was the first fissure in the "Iron Curtain" that had divided Europe for more than 40 years, since the end of World War II.