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Iron curtain

Iron curtain Meaning & Definition
Iron curtain Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Iron curtain?

[n] 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

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See Also | ideological barrier

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