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Article: Iron Curtain
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Iron Curtain
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The term
iron curtain
was coined by the British author and suffragette Ethel Snowden in her book
Through Bolshevik Russia
(1920). In her very early and negative critique of the Bolshevik form of communism, this British feminist referred to the iron curtain simply as the contemporary geographical border of Bolshevik Russia in 1919 (
‘
We were behind the
‘
iron curtain
’
at last
’
). At the end of the Nazi regime in Germany the minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, used the term in a journal article and several times in his private diary in February 1945, and the minister of finance, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, used it in a radio ...