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During the Cold War, that gap constituted the border between the United States and the Soviet Union, and became known as the "Ice Curtain". In 1987, however, Lynne Cox swam from one island to the other, and was congratulated by both Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan for her feat.
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In December 1950, with the Korean War in progress, National Intelligence Estimate 15 was issued: "Probable Soviet Moves to Exploit the Present Situation". [1] It began with the estimate that "USSR-Satellite treatment of Korean developments, k, indicates that they assess their current military and political position as one of great strength in comparison with that of the West, and that they ...
The Curtain was deployed during the period marked by the collapse of the former Imperial Russian Army and the Red Army was just being formed. [2] After initial German successes, in early March a mixture of Red Guards, Red Army, volunteer and partisan forces stabilized the line along the Narva and Dnieper rivers; they formed the beginning of the ...
Schmidt Island ice cap – Severnaya Zemlya; Severny Island ice cap – Novaya Zemlya (Largest glacier complex by area in Europe) [3] Toll Glacier (Lednik Tollya) – Bennett Island. De Long Islands; University Glacier (Lednik Universitetskiy) – Severnaya Zemlya; Ushakov Island ice cap [4] – Kara Sea; Vavilov Glacier (Lednik Vavilova ...
The Ice House (Russian: Ледяной дом) was an palace built of ice in the winter of 1739–40 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The palace and the surrounding festivities were part of the celebration of Russia's victory over the Ottoman Empire .
The short distance, 3.8 km (2.4 mi), between the Soviet Union (Big Diomede) and the U.S. (Little Diomede Island, state of Alaska) in the Bering Sea became known as the "Ice Curtain" during the Cold War. A field of cacti surrounding the U.S. Naval station at Guantanamo Bay planted by Cuba was occasionally termed the "Cactus Curtain". [110] [111]