Dictionary definition: iron curtain

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: 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: 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: A tour of lab medicine, Soviet-style. (medical laboratories in ...
Medical Laboratory Observer;  August 1, 1985 ;     700+ words ... ... Soviet republics, and the Soviet Union or U.S.S.R.) In three ... Laboratory practices in the Soviet Union reflect the fundamental differences ... of lab medicine behind the Iron Curtain. In the Soviet Union, there is no real equivalent ...

Article: Thatcher: Iron Curtain Replaced By New Hazards
Chicago Sun-Times;  March 10, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech by warning ... in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across ... separating the Soviet Union from the rest of Europe ... said that since the Soviet Union's collapse, the ...

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 ...