The Iron Curtain was a figurative and ideological wall — and eventually a physical one — that separated the Soviet Union from western Europe after World War II. The name, widely attributed to ...

and in his engrossing “Retracing the Iron Curtain,” Mr. Phillips uses that journey to tell the story of this brutal “border of borders,” which in the early days after World War II reached ...

The analogy, of course, was from the Iron Curtain, coined after World War II that separated the Soviet Union from the West. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction ...

The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case ... Canada in the midst of World War II. Eventually, Gouzenko defected with 109 pages of material implicating several high level Canadian ...

These, however, are being built by the West. “The Iron Curtain is gone, but the ‘barbed wire curtain’ is now unfortunately becoming the reality for much of Europe,” said Klaus Dodds ...

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that a new “iron curtain” was descending between Russia and the West. Moscow’s decision to invade Ukraine in February has triggered an ...