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The Iron Curtain was a physical (and sometimes figurative) border that could've been found in countries all across Europe. Its main purpose was to separate the Eastern Bloc from western democratic nations. It was built by the Soviet Union directly following the end of the second world war to effectively isolate countries apart of the USSR from western influence. The name “The Iron Curtain” was coined by Winston Churchill in 1946, effectively beginning this time period of speration. This lasted until 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell. When the Berlin Wall fell, it effectively took down the entire Iron Curtain as well as ended the Cold War. The Cold War was a non militarized, political war fought between the United States and the Soviet Union
Map depicting different members of the “Eastern Bloc” aka countries with strong ties to the Soviet Union.
Map depicting where the Iron Curtain border was.
An artifact from a border of the Iron Curtain.
A photo depicting children playing alongside a physical wall of the Iron Curtain.
“The real concern for the Russians is that they're going to get closed out, that there's going to be a new 'Iron Curtain'... for European expansion and all of its institutional forms” (Fiona Hill)
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent” (Winston Churchill 1946).
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