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  1. Pre-Cold War usage

    In the 19th century, iron safety curtains were installed on theater stages to slow the spread of fire.
    Perhaps the first recorded application of the term "iron curtain" to Soviet Russia was in Vasily Roz… See more

    During the Cold War

    The antagonism between the Soviet Union and the West that came to be described as the "iron curtain" had various origins.
    During the summer of 1939, after conducting negotiations both with a British-French gro… See more

    Fall

    Following a period of economic and political stagnation under Brezhnev and his immediate successors, the Soviet Union decreased its intervention in Eastern Bloc politics. Mikhail Gorbachev (General Secretary fr… See more

    Monuments

    There is an Iron Curtain monument in the southern part of the Czech Republic at approximately 48°52′32″N 15°52′29″E / 48.8755°N 15.87477°E . A few hundred meters of the original fence, and one of the guard towe… See more

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