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- DictionaryI·ron Cur·tain
noun
- 1. a 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.
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- Iron Curtain
Term symbolizing the ideological-political conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe during the Cold War
Yugoslavia, member of the Non-Aligned Movement The black dot represents the Berlin Wall around West Berlin. Albania withheld its support to the Warsaw Pact in 1961 due to the Soviet–Albanian split and formally withdrew in 1968. Yugoslavia was considered part of the Eastern Bloc for 2 years until the Tito–Stalin split in 1948, but remained independent for the remainder of its existence. It graduall... Wikipedia
