Definitions
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- n. The dividing line between Western Europe and the Soviet controlled regions, especially during the Cold War.
Etymologies
Specialised use of iron curtain. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Communists in the Greek Army in Syria fomented a mutiny that further delayed the victory in Italy, and it was at that point that the Cold War started and the Iron Curtain began to descend.
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Moscow franking, same as Casey Tcholok, no other Iron Curtain visits.
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In his new book, Free World, Timothy Garton Ash remembers the friends he had behind the Iron Curtain who used to tell him, 'We are the West trapped in the East.'
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