Arpad Bella, a former Hungarian border guard who in 1989 decided not to shoot hundreds of East Germans who broke open the Iron Curtain, thus beginning a month-long breach. The stretch of barbed ...

But Putin sending tanks across the Ukrainian border on February 24 has brought a new era of confrontation and the formation of a new 'Iron Curtain' - by the West.

The fence plan drew condemnation, evoking memories of the days of the Iron Curtain. The UN said it would 'place too many barriers' to the 'human right' to seek asylum Author of the article: The ...

The Iron Curtain was the political and economic boundary separating Europe into eastern countries in the Soviet Union's sphere of influence and those aligned with Western countries and the NATO ...

Europe’s new ‘Iron Curtain’ after miles of barbed wire fences built at Russian borders Jasper King Published November 18, 2022 12:01pm Updated November 18, 2022 12:48pm Comments ...

The Baltic countries seek to end any relations with russia and Belarus and lower the iron curtain, Latvian Prime Minister Evika Siliņa said. "We understand that in the future there will be an iron ...

But in 1945, the Yalta pact negotiated between the U.S., British and Soviet leaders drew new European borders that organized the Central and Eastern European countries strictly along ethnic lines.

And so Mr. Phillips shows up in Bornholm, a Danish island in the Baltic, which was still being “liberated” by the Soviets when Churchill spoke of an Iron Curtain.

Forty regions on the EU's eastern border are kicking off a network, aimed at avoiding a new "iron curtain" emerging after the enlargement of the bloc's Schengen borderless zone to new member states.