iron curtain in English

noun
1
the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
In the past 15 years, the former East bloc nations behind the Iron Curtain have become free and democratic.

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1. SHE'S FROM BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN.

2. In 1989 the Iron Curtain was removed.

3. 1 All talk of liberating iron curtain capitals disappeared.

4. 12 But once back in Paris, the iron curtain rose again.

5. He also mentioned Otto's role in bringing down the Iron Curtain.

6. Window-shopping through the iron curtain, a book by David Hlynsky.

7. Iron Curtain countries have long proscribed their work of Bible education.

8. It was inaccessible to my family until the Iron Curtain was lifted.

9. And in the aftermath, also not the fall of the Iron Curtain.

10. 20 There a huge mountaintop antenna monitored radio chat behind the Iron Curtain.

11. 2 It was inaccessible to my family until the Iron Curtain was lifted.

12. He was particularly interested in the preaching work in countries behind the Iron Curtain.

13. 4 The gradual raising of the Iron curtain isn't just good news for politicians.

14. 19 They're receiving information about the nerve - gas formula from behind the Iron Curtain.

15. 7 Three million more were trapped bellied the Iron Curtain in a Stalinist nightmare.

16. With the onset of the Cold War, Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain.

17. 10 The Iron Curtain came down with the fall of the former Soviet Union.

18. 5 The slight raising of the Iron Curtain brought cultural contacts with the West.

19. 14 But they get hot under the collar about trips behind the old Iron Curtain.

20. Fetzer, was called to give patriarchal blessings to Church members living behind the Iron Curtain.

21. 21 But their words helped pierce the concrete and concertina wire of the Iron Curtain.

22. 9 The statesman said the Iron Curtain countries had vast resources in manpower and materiel.

23. Aside from a few minor adjustments, this would be the "Iron Curtain" of the Cold War.

24. Prague No. 180 was transported to Crich just ahead of the "Iron curtain" of communist occupation.

25. 13 The collapse of the Iron Curtain had immediate impact on the lives of everyone in Germany.

26. However, the question of responsibility remained controversial in the West as well as behind the Iron Curtain.

27. The fall of the Iron Curtain was accompanied by a massive rise in European East-West migration.

28. 6 But any information from behind the Iron Curtain was treated like gold dust in those days.

29. Migration from east to west of the Iron Curtain, except under limited circumstances, was effectively halted after 1950.

30. Behind the darkness of the Iron Curtain, the Saints survived because they heard His voice through the scriptures.

31. 3 The lifting of the Iron Curtain has revealed some other gifted composers with a growing international reputation.

32. He set up an alliance with university scientists, Project Troy, to study radio propagation behind the Iron Curtain.

33. After a stay back in Bern, my travel continued to all other European countries west of the Iron Curtain.

34. 18 It was instead the most conspicuous part of the physical and metaphorical Iron Curtain dividing free and unfree Europe.

35. 15 I analysed them and found that a material had been used which is only obtainable in Iron Curtain countries.

36. 16 All hail the new spirit of East/West friendship which has delivered the Iron Curtain from state-controlled economies.

37. 8 Plain-language advocates and practitioners will nibble at the iron curtain of the tenacious legalese and other forms of gobbledygook .

38. In the years following our visit to Romania, we heard few details about the preaching activity from behind the Iron Curtain.

39. For many years my assignments took me into that part of Germany which was behind what was called the Iron Curtain.

40. 17 There are 18 countries represented in the league,(www.Sentencedict.com) which became truly global after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

41. In order to try to form an independent assessment of "life behind the Iron Curtain" they then, in 1966, toured the Soviet Union.

42. In summer 1989, Hungary decided to dismantle the Iron Curtain and open the borders, causing the emigration of thousands of East Germans to West Germany via Hungary.

43. The majority of European states to the east of the Iron Curtain developed their own international economic and military alliances, such as COMECON and the Warsaw Pact.

44. Ronald Reagan railed against the "evil empire" of the USSR, but responded to Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika opening and remarkably, the Iron Curtain was torn down Bloodlessly

45. Set in the aftermath of the collapse of the Iron Curtain, his latest book, Coercion, is a compelling tale of espionage and betrayal, one that will leave its readers wanting more.” —James A

46. Set in the aftermath of the collapse of the Iron Curtain, his latest book, Coercion, is a compelling tale of espionage and betrayal, one that will leave its readers wanting more.” —James A

47. Siri received the requisite number of votes on the third ballot, and was elected as Gregory XVII, but "the French cardinals annulled the results, claiming that the election would cause widespread riots and the assassination of several prominent bishops behind the Iron Curtain."

48. Othmar Karas, leader of the European Parliament delegation of the Austrian People's Party, said that "all of Europe is crying." Czech Republic – Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg praised Otto, stating that Otto had "courageously fought for the peoples imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain."