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Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, several initiatives are pursuing the creation of a European Green Belt nature preserve area along the Iron Curtain's former route. In fact, a long-distance cycling route along the length of the former border called the Iron Curtain Trail (ICT) exists as a project of the European Union and other associated ...
Part of the former "iron curtain" in Devínska Nová Ves, Bratislava. After the Second World War the original borders of Czechoslovakia were restored and special police units were established to protect the borders together with the army.
Monument to the Iron Curtain not far from the border crossing Thayatal National Park in Austria, on the border with the Czech Republic. The European Green Belt initiative is a grassroots movement for nature conservation and sustainable development along the corridor of the former Iron Curtain. The term refers to an environmental initiative as ...
Further on, environmentalists have been working to extend the Green Belt beyond the German borders to reflect the larger "Iron Curtain" of the former Soviet states. The European Green Belt has evolved along the former Iron Curtain and runs the length of Europe, from the Barents Sea in the north to the Adriatic and the Black Sea in the south. In ...
Little remains of the inner German border's fortifications. Its route has been declared part of a European Green Belt linking national parks and nature reserves along the course of the old Iron Curtain from the Arctic Circle to the Black Sea. Museums and memorials along the old border commemorate the division and reunification of Germany and ...
Grushecky and the former Iron City Houserockers broke through in the mid-1970s on Cleveland International Records, the same label of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes.
The Lost Border: Photographs of the Iron Curtain (in Italian) Borders: spotting the past along Berlin death strip. 2007 BW photo gallery. Information about the Iron Curtain with a detailed map and how to make it by bike; 1996 Interview with Viktor Belenko, who escaped in a Mig-25 Foxbat
A former competitor for both Belarus and Russia, Volyanskaya skated with Valery Spiridonov, whose son, Anton, now represents the U.S. in ice dance. She has worked as an athlete for the Washington ...