How to pronounce “iron curtain” in English

when the Iron Curtain came crumbling down.

history of the iron curtain.

Thereís the iron curtain.

And since the iron curtain is so often invoked in debates about todayís walls such as in the U.S. with Mexico and in the Middle East, we should learn the lessons of its fortification.

behind the Iron Curtain that people in the United States cared about the future

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, Zeitz experienced an unprecedented mass exodus.

on the other side of the Iron Curtain.

One was the fall of the Iron Curtain.

So much so that when the iron curtain finally fell in 1989, people were euphoric and it was a bewildering experience.

And the strength of the iron curtain really depended upon these people.

People in Eastern Europe who were living behind the Iron Curtain simply weren't living as well as people in Western Europe.

The Wall was just the last piece of closing the Iron Curtain.

Western representations really reinforced the image of the iron curtain as an inevitable, inescapable reality.

People had cumulatively feared and adjusted to the iron curtain but when Gorbachev, Perestroika and confusions in the East German leadership made another reality seem possible on November

Iím not contending there is anything uniquely German about the iron curtain, Iíd like to be clear on this, but I do want to point out that it did arise from a specific historical

Pulitzer Prize for examining Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

thought this was the equivalent of Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech like that big a deal and I thought well

that's really interesting because Churchill of course gave the Iron Curtain Speech at Westminster College in Missouri sort of small college but Bush

Because in those days it wasn't easy to talk across the Iron Curtain.

Because you've written another book about how the Germans built the Iron Curtain, so you clearly have an interest in Germany and the Nazi era.

Her recently completed book Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain challenges the conventional history of the iron curtain suggesting how the physical barrier

The Berlin Wall was only the final and most famous portion of the iron curtain to be built.

So because my argument is about all the little ways that the iron curtain became effect, my approach was basically to canvas all available sources.

no one would have denied the geopolitical conditions created the conditions in which the iron curtain arose, I donít mean to imply that they donít.

There was always a dynamic at work here and itís important to understanding how the iron curtain actually evolved.

Then heretical idea number two, which actually originated from behind the Iron Curtain, that was that the dark matter, that Zwicky knew about,

'Nadia'"-- this is Nadia Comaneci, the gymnast-- "'Nadia lives behind the Iron Curtain,' Beth announced.

the world had 31 democracies, half of Europe was behind the Iron Curtain and ruled by totalitarian, communist dictatorships.

And they couldn't be prosecuted there, because when the Iron Curtain was up, there was no question of any extradition in relation

The Cold War was a lie, and far beyond the Iron Curtain, the blacked-out science city lay frozen and empty.

And the Americans who had no idea what was going on the other side of the Iron Curtain were recruiting anyone who even spoke the language.

The good fortune that we had that it didn't go is that Gorbachev actually started cutting down the Iron Curtain.

And triggered by that, Hungary started in June of 1989 to cut down the Iron Curtain to Austria.

Iíll leave other juicy anecdotes to Edith but be prepared to be surprised about what happened at the beginnings of the iron curtain.

It is also difficult to convey exactly what I mean by people when I say people made the iron curtain.

So itís not an exaggeration but itís a very specialized place that had been on the iron curtain.

So what I think is so amazing is that the very same people who were buttressing the iron curtain, making it function, making it possible, were in a position to subvert it

Rather, when you look at the full history of the iron curtain, you see this jumble of events.

Second, Germany in the Cold War looked different from this iron curtain.

And Germanyís post war development looks a lot less peaceable from this iron curtain.

So there was a poll a few years ago of teenagers who had no living experience with the iron curtain, they were all born after 1989 and only 35 percent said they would readily date

And, in popular imagination as well as in scholarship, the iron curtain appears to be monolithic.

But what happened in Berlin, Iíll be arguing, is just one part of a much longer story of the entire iron curtain.

So, before going into my examples, Iíd like to give you a quick overview of the development of the iron curtain.

So, in sum, I believe that this potential for subversion suggests that the strength of the iron curtain depended less upon its physical defenses than, again, upon the accommodation

So the ultimate fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, I think, tells us something about what helped sustain the iron curtain.

The threshold of fear finally tipped and the iron curtain unexpectedly collapsed.

And this, to me, suggests that the strength of the iron curtain resided also within citizens not just the concrete barriers.

So, to conclude, Iíve just given you a slice of this research but I hope youíve gotten a sense for just how multilayered the iron curtain actually was.