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subst.1) (overført, historisk, politikk) jernteppe2) ( teater) jernteppeIron Curtain countries land bak jernteppet (Øst-Europa)the Iron Curtain jernteppet
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Iron Curtain Countries — Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, East Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union, Yugoslavia … Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games
Iron Curtain — 1) N PROPER: the N People referred to the border that separated the Soviet Union and the communist countries of Eastern Europe from the Western European countries as the Iron Curtain. The collapse of the Iron Curtain had immediate impact on the… … English dictionary
Iron Curtain — n the Iron Curtain the name that was used for the border between the Communist countries of Eastern Europe and the rest of Europe … Dictionary of contemporary English
iron curtain — n. [prob. calque of Ger eiserner vorhang, as used by Joseph Goebbels: popularized by Sir Winston Churchill in a speech (1946)] 1. [often I C ] a barrier of secrecy and censorship regarded as isolating the Soviet Union and other countries in its… … English World dictionary
Iron Curtain — The Iron Curtain was the symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II until the end of the Cold War, roughly 1945 to 1991. At both sides of the Iron Curtain, the states… … Wikipedia
iron curtain — 1. (sometimes caps.) a barrier to understanding and the exchange of information and ideas created by ideological, political, and military hostility of one country toward another, esp. such a barrier between the Soviet Union and its allies and… … Universalium
Iron Curtain — Following the end of World War II, there was growing fear concerning the domination of Eastern European countries by the Soviet Union (USSR). Speaking in Fulton, Missouri, on 5 March 1946, British prime minister Winston Churchill warned of the … Historical Dictionary of the Roosevelt–Truman Era
Iron Curtain — the Iron Curtain the name that was used for the border between the Communist countries of Eastern Europe and the rest of Europe … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
Iron Curtain — /aɪən ˈkɜtn / (say uyuhn kertn) noun 1. (formerly) the ideological, economic and military division formed between those European countries partly or wholly within the Soviet sphere of influence and those partly or wholly within the US sphere of… …
iron curtain — i′ron cur′tain n. gov (sometimes caps.) a barrier to understanding and the exchange of information created by the hostility of one country toward another, esp. such a barrier between the Soviet Union or its allies and other countries • Etymology … From formal English to slang
iron curtain — noun 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 (Freq. 1) • Hypernyms:… … Useful english dictionary