Noun: iron curtain 'I(-u)rn 'kúr-t(u)n
- An impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy; used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the demarcation between democratic and communist countries
"The fall of the Berlin Wall symbolized the lifting of the iron curtain in Europe"
Derived forms: iron curtains
Type of: ideological barrier
Encyclopedia: Iron curtain