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 lives of everyone inGermany.
...when he travelled behind the Iron Curtain in the 1970s.
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
People used to refer to the Soviet Union and its East European allies as the Iron Curtain countries.
Iron Curtain in British English
noun
a.
(formerly) the guarded border between the countries of the Soviet bloc and the rest of Europe
b.
(as modifier)
Iron Curtain countries
iron curtain in American English
1. [oftenI- 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
Word origin
prob. calque of Ger eiserner vorhang, as used by Joseph Goebbels: popularized by Sir Winston Churchill in a speech (1946)
Examples of 'Iron Curtain' in a sentence
Iron Curtain
He often went to Europe on such visits, not only to the West, but sometimes to Iron Curtain countries.
Harcourt, Palma A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
`There were a couple of Iron Curtain country tenders for building it.
Aird, Catherine A DEAD LIBERTY
Also, he's checking every seaport from Marseilles to Dunkirk for any kind of ship bound for an Iron Curtain destination.