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Iron Curtain: Quick Facts

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Date c. 1946 - c. 1990
Location Europe
Context Berlin Wall • Cold War • World War II

Did You Know?

  • Joseph Stalin denounced Churchill's Iron Curtain speech as "war mongering".

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The Brandenburg Gate is seen through coils of barbed wire, with a sign reading in German that you are leaving West Berlin, during the early Berlin Wall era, circa 1962.
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
premier of Soviet Union

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