iron curtain as a noun: - 1
iron curtain
noun
1 iron curtain
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.
Dutch: IJzeren Gordijn
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