Article: SEX, SPIES, CRICKET AND THE FALL OF THE INSANE EMPIRE; As an expat behind the Iron Curtain, manfully fighting off seductionbids by Communist agents, EDWARD LUCAS was a witness to history when, 20 years ago, the Berlin Wall came down. Here, he vividly recalls a very surreal revolution.(News)

Article: Spinning compass. (changing world without Iron ...
Flight International;  September 9, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... massive military strength of the Soviet Union and its co-opted allies of ... s forces deployed along the Iron Curtain were essentially a tripwire trigger ... countries and the demise of the Soviet Union removed NATO's main threat ...

Article: American Jewish Congress leaders travel to Eastern Europe and the ...
PR Newswire;  October 16, 1986 ;     700+ words ... ... travel to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union where they will meet with members of Jewish communities in Iron Curtain countries. The members of the ... Soviet government to come to the Soviet Union as official represen tatives ...

Article: The Iron Curtain falls.(fall of the Soviet ...
Canada and the World Backgrounder;  October 1, 1997 ;     601 words ... ... and the line that divided the two sides was called the Iron Curtain. The Western powers operated under the umbrella of the North ... most of the rest of Central and Eastern Europe. When the Soviet Union started to implode in the late 1980s, its forces began to ...

Article: Author le carre was 'tempted' to defect to Russia ; A westcountry ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  September 15, 2008 ;     637 words ... ... thought about defecting to the Soviet Union during the Cold War because he was curious about life behind the Iron Curtain. John Le Carre, real name David ... OBE but was celebrated in the Soviet Union, where he was awarded one of ...

Article: Bennett to Soviets: Raise Iron Curtain
Chicago Sun-Times;  January 21, 1986 ;     471 words ... ... appealed to the Soviet Union to "raise the Iron Curtain" and allow American ... ignorant of the Soviet Union and the history ... counterparts in the Soviet Union. . . . Let us ... Instead, raise the Iron Curtain, at least enough ...

Article: The Electronic Iron Curtain
The Washington Post;  December 2, 1988 ;     591 words ... ... radios broadcasting into the Soviet Union, the American stations ... broadcasting too. The Soviet Union maintained this electronic Iron Curtain for four decades to isolate ... see how much further the Soviet Union still has to go to throw ...

Article: Iron Curtain
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences;      700+ words ... ... x201C; Iron Curtain Speech ... with the Soviet Union as its political ... control of the Soviet Union. These countries ... x201C; Iron Curtain countries ... fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The fall of the iron curtain coincided ...