the Iron Curtain
noun [S]Definition
› From 1946-1989 the Iron Curtain was the name of the border between Western Europe and the communist countries of Eastern Europe, which made it very difficult to travel into or out of Eastern Europe.Territorial boundaries
(Definition of the Iron Curtain noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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