iron curtain

For anyone who cared to watch, the event and its denouement provided a graphic demonstration that the Iron Curtain was crumbling.

The last time a Pope addressed the parliament in Strasbourg was in 1988 when an Iron Curtain still divided the continent.

Where are the writers who helped smuggle samizdat out from behind the Iron Curtain?

With the Iron Curtain solidly drawn around it, Estonia was struggling to make tourism ends meet in the decades after World War II.

Almost nothing has been touched since the fall of the USSR in 1991, providing an uncanny glimpse behind the Iron Curtain.

He had attended to a new curiosity on the part of another official of the County Council about the iron curtain.

Even your friends inside the Iron Curtain know that the only way to conquer a country is to smash it down to savagery.

But that was after Sputnik, and we didn't dare disregard any hints from the other side of the Iron Curtain.

You might be interested in a very peculiar tale our modern agents have picked up, floating over and under the iron curtain.

We just—you know, it's not very easy sometimes to talk to the people from behind the Iron Curtain.