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iron curtain
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1. often Iron Curtain The military, political, and ideological barrier established between the Soviet bloc and western Europe from 1945 to 1990.2. A barrier that prevents free exchange of ideas and information: “That department and the editorial department are separated by an almost impenetrable iron curtain” (Brendan Gill).
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Universalium. 2010.