Iron curtain

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English: The iron curtain is a Western term referring to the boundary which symbolically, ideologically, and physically divided Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II until the end of the Cold War, roughly 1945 to 1990.

Maps

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  English: The Iron Curtain as it extended throughout Europe

  Deutsch: Die Teilung Europas durch den Eisernen Vorhang

Photos

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  Iron Curtain Germany
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  Iron Curtain Germany (detail)
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  Iron Curtain in Germany
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  Iron Curtain in Slovakia
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  Iron Curtain in Slovakia (detail)
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  East German border guards man a guard tower at the border between East and West German in 1984
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  Preserved section of the "Little Berlin Wall" at Mödlareuth
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  Grenzschranke an der Grenze zur ehemaligen DDR in Teistungen
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  Iron Curtain in Hungary

Berlin Wall

See also: Berlin Wall

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  June 1988 - Checkpoint to Kubat-Dreieck - Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
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  To the Kubat-Dreieck, Berlin Wall on Potsdamer Platz, June 1988
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  Kubat-Dreieck on the Berlin Wall, June 1988
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  Kubat-Dreieck on the Berlin Wall, taken by police, July 1st 1988
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  Berlin Wall, eastgerman border guard looks at the Kubat-Dreieck, July 1st 1988
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  Iron Curtain Berlin Wall, Mikhail Gorbachev in Schengen