The Soviets installed governments in a group of countries around themselves for protection and exploitation - a number of Eastern European ... in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended ...
Driven by popular demand, independent museums about various aspects of everyday life under communism are cropping up in some of Central and Eastern ... life behind the Iron Curtain followed ...
In this short film for secondary schools historian Dominic Sandbrook explains how the phrase the ‘Iron Curtain’ came ... influence of Moscow in Eastern Europe. The speech is seen by many ...
After WWII, Truman watched most of Eastern Europe fall to the Communist "Iron Curtain." "I do not think we should play compromise any longer," Truman wrote.
MINSK, September 12. /TASS/. Belarus is open to everyone who comes in peace and does not understand why Europe seeks to raise the iron curtain again, President Alexander Lukashenko said during a ...
The lingering Euro Zone crisis has hampered efforts to get Eastern European countries to ... The opening of state archives after the fall of the Iron Curtain helped keep a spotlight on the issue.
"an iron curtain has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of central and Eastern Europe: Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade ...