A term used by Winston Churchill to describe the growing divide between western democracies and Soviet-influenced states.
an impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy; used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the demarcation between democratic and communist countries
the barbed wire and mined border erected to separate Western Europe from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
metaphor used by Winston Churchill in a speech in 1946 to describe the imaginary wall or dividing line separating the countries of the former Soviet bloc from the rest of the world. It was a barrier that prevented the flow of both people and information between the two worlds. The Iron Curtain "fell" with the decline of communism in the early 1990s.
Phrase coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division between free and communist societies taking shape in Europe after 1946. (p. 659)
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" to refer to the "boundary" that divided Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe from Western European nations not under Soviet domination.
The "Iron Curtain" was 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 1991. The term was coined by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and made famous by Winston Churchill.