The Iron Curtain

What Was the Iron Curtain? How was the Iron Curtain created?

After World War II a barrier was enacted by the Soviet Union. And on March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill used the term in a speech where he said, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Ardiatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.” Churchill was speaking metaphorically representing a political, military, and ideological sealing off, of the Soviet Union from European allies and noncommunist areas.

The Iron Curtain was not an actual, physical wall.  It was a political divide of Europe by the Soviet Union (USSR). This divide saw a weakening after Stalin’s death in 1953, but was again strengthened in 1961 with an actual, constructed Berlin Wall. The Fall of the Berlin Wall – Research History

It was not until1989–90 that we saw the disappearance of the Iron Curtain era when the communists abandoned their government of one-party rule in eastern Europe.

Reference: Iron Curtain | Definition & Facts | Britannica