iron curtain

It was a rational strategy for those who could not influence the regime, but it had a flaw: they were still behind the Iron Curtain.

And with the fall of the Iron Curtain, elections indeed swept the world. Yet democracy doesn't seem to have delivered on its promise.

Not a lot was made of it at the time, but the once impregnable Iron Curtain had been breached.

But no writer from the region, in fact or fiction, has produced a matching account of the collapse of the Iron Curtain and its aftermath.

This iron curtain divided Europe into a communist east and a democratic west.

The statesman said the Iron Curtain countries had vast resources in manpower and materiel.

With the iron curtain still firmly in place, Moscow did not have anything resembling a computer industry and software was not for sale.

Perhaps nowhere in Germany are the effects of the Iron Curtain understood better than the tiny village of Moedlareuth.

During the cold war similar devices were said to be in development on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

Two decades later, however, enthusiasm for democracy and capitalism east of the former Iron Curtain appears to have waned considerably.

Mr Lehniger, of Dynamit Nobel Defence, says that Iron Curtain and similar systems might be able to defeat his firm's Panzerfaust 3 missile.

The Iron Curtain was the statesman Winston Churchill's term for the dividing line between eastern and western Europe .

Probably you can argue that there was harmony behind the Iron Curtain of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics.

Dr. Librescu survived the war, but found himself trapped behind the Iron Curtain of Romania's post-war Communist regime.

Walking into the gallery, you will find that the exhibition hall is divided by the huge iron curtain frames where the paintings are hung up.

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, the American daily the Los Angeles Times conducted one of the first polls in Eastern Europe in 1990.

If this country's desire to abolish nuclear weapons is genuine, it could raise the iron curtain for evermore.

He described it as an "iron curtain" falling across the middle of Europe.

Iron Curtain vulnerable, history has ended, the global situation, a good capitalist, not a little better .

In 1990 after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the former East Germany became part of the Community as part of a newly united Germany.

But when the Iron Curtain came down, the leak turned into a flood.

"An iron curtain has come down, " he said.

The Hungarian prime minister warns of a "new iron curtain" descending across Europe.

It was instead the most conspicuous part of the physical and metaphorical Iron Curtain dividing free and unfree Europe.

"Kinmen had an iron curtain in the past because we surrounded ourselves with these iron bars, " said Li Zhu-feng, the county magistrate.

Send the Trucks into an enemy base, before they come in range of their weapons, cast the Iron Curtain on them.

It seems fitting to be drinking No Man's Land wine as we toast the tearing down 20 years ago this autumn of the Iron Curtain.

but once back in paris , the iron curtain rose again.

A new Iron Curtain is being drawn around Russia. It's not so impregnable or wide as the Soviet one.

The Iron Curtain Trail from Schleid led north through Geisa, a charming village that also lay inside the sperrgebiet.

Look at his record, in his retirement he came to the states, made aspeech there, scared everybody: An Iron curtain had draw across Europe!

But to catch up on what the region missed when it was behind the Iron Curtain remains a mighty task.

Drive the Demolition Trucks into an enemy base and engage the Iron Curtain on them before enemy weapons can hit them.

NARRATOR: In 1987 President Reagan carried this war of words to the most symbolic section of the Iron Curtain: the Berlin Wall.

The raising of the Iron Curtain also allowed for great expansion of the European Union.

Through his strength and his conviction he brought millions of people to freedom as the Iron Curtain finally came down.

There a huge mountaintop antenna monitored radio chat behind the Iron Curtain.

But their words helped pierce the concrete and concertina wire of the Iron Curtain.

I'm a CIA agent. I've come to escort you back to the other side of the Iron Curtain.

Milton Friedman always understood the oppressiveness of life behind the Iron Curtain.

Iron Curtain, another active-protection system, has been developed for American forces by Artis.

In the end, Gorbachev did, and the rest of the Iron Curtain followed.

When the Iron Curtain fell, ex-dissidents and retired cold warriors found they had plenty in common.

At Hilders, the R3 becomes the Iron Curtain Trail, and we veered north and followed it along the former border.

Classmates in Iron Curtain Gallery are ready for class.

In front of the iron curtain which lies across Europe are other causes for anxiety.

When the Iron Curtain came down, it revealed a dismal world of sad people and cruel rulers.

Invincible Demolition Trucks Build five or six Demolition Trucks and have a fully charged Iron Curtain ready.

A new Iron Curtain is being drawn around Russia.

In front of the Iron Curtain across Europe, there are other worrying factor.

Core tip : If the people want to find the Iron Curtain in the reality on the earth , Berlin Wall is undoubtedly the most representive one .

These are plans for Iron Curtain. Use on our Demolotion Trucks to make ultimate weapon of destruction!

That department and the editorial department are separated by an almost impenetrable iron curtain(Brendan Gill)

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