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Information about the Iron Curtain with a detailed map and how to make it by bike "Peep under the Iron Curtain", a cartoon first published on 6 March 1946 in the Daily Mail; Field research along the northern sections of the former German-German border, with detailed maps, diagrams, and photos; The Lost Border: Photographs of the Iron Curtain
Extend the Iron Curtain eastwards of Yugoslavia. Even though Yugoslavia was not really considered part of the West, the currenet map gives the false impression that there was a huge gap in the Iron Curtain, which wasn't the case. 00:56, 23 July 2022: 645 × 690 (321 KB) Kwamikagami: NATO blue, #004990: 20:30, 30 March 2019: 645 × 690 (321 KB ...
Map with Soviet domination over E. Europe Demarcating Iron Curtain overlaid on today's boundaries. Source Own work Date 2014-09-09
This is the Iron Curtain from the late 1950s up to the late 1980s. Created by Vernes Seferovic. Warsaw Pact countries to the east of the Iron Curtain are shaded red; NATO members to the west of it — blue. Militarily neutral countries − grey.
By the end of the Cold War, as many as 300 United States citizens were thought to have defected across the Iron Curtain for a variety of reasons [24] – whether to escape criminal charges, for political reasons, or because (as the St. Petersburg Times put it) "girl-hungry GIs [were tempted] with seductive sirens, who usually desert the love ...
A preserved fence with watchtower near Čížov (2009). The protection of borders between the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR) and several of the capitalist countries of Western Europe, namely with Germany and Austria, in the Cold War era and especially after 1951, was provided by special troops of the Pohraniční Stráž (English: the Border Guard) and a system of engineer equipment ...
In truth, Vance was giving voice to the many Europeans who have been sending clear signals by voting for nationalist-populist anti-immigration parties everywhere from Britain to the old Iron Curtain.
The Iron Curtain Trail (ICT), also known as EuroVelo 13 (EV13), is a long-distance cycling route along the route of the former Iron Curtain, from the Barents Sea to the Black Sea. [1] It is 10,550 km long.