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Iron Curtain

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Noun

1. iron curtain

an impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy; used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the demarcation between democratic and communist countries

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Iron Curtain

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noun
a. 
(formerly) the guarded border between the countries of the Soviet bloc and the rest of Europe
b. 
(as modifier)
Iron Curtain countries

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Iron Curtain

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1.  [often I- C-]
a barrier of secrecy and censorship regarded as isolating the Soviet Union and other countries in its sphere
, often with the
2. 
a similar barrier to information in other regions

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Iron Curtain

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n.
1. often Iron Curtain The military, political, and ideological barrier established between the Soviet bloc and western Europe from 1945 to 1990.
2. A barrier that prevents free exchange of ideas and information: "That department and the editorial department are separated by an almost impenetrable iron curtain" (Brendan Gill).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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