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Swedish book "Behind Russia's iron curtain" from 1923. In the 19th century, iron safety curtains were installed on theater stages to slow the spread of fire. Perhaps the first recorded application of the term "iron curtain" to Soviet Russia was in Vasily Rozanov's 1918 polemic The Apocalypse of Our Time. It is possible that Churchill read it ...
The Lost Border: Photographs of the Iron Curtain (in Italian) Borders: spotting the past along Berlin death strip. 2007 BW photo gallery. Information about the Iron Curtain with a detailed map and how to make it by bike; 1996 Interview with Viktor Belenko, who escaped in a Mig-25 Foxbat
Ruled by dictatorial governments, the people in Eastern Bloc countries demanded democratic elections, freedom of speech, and the withdrawal of Soviet troops. The Iron Curtain and its physical manifestations in heavily guarded border fences and crossings, as seen in Czechoslovakia and in East Germany, were a dominant factor in the movement to ...
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The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the collective term for an unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).
The major development for rock behind the Iron Curtain in the 1970s was original songs written in the authors' native language. Bands like Illés in Hungary, the Plastic People of the Universe in Czechoslovakia, and Time Machine in the Soviet Union adapted their native languages to rock. They managed to enjoy a steady following, unlike similar ...
With Europe stabilizing along the Iron Curtain, the CIA attempted to limit the spread of Soviet influence elsewhere around the world.Much of the basic model came from George Kennan's "containment" strategy from 1947, a foundation of US policy for decades.
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 ...