Meaning of iron curtain in English

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  2. Noun
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  1. Noun

    iron curtain

    Definitions

    1. an impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy

    Examples

    • « used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the demarcation between democratic and communist countries »

Famous quotes

  • « I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't. »
    Thomas Gold

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