Iron Curtain
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Iron Curtain
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1946 Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1989 Hungary: the last communist government opens the Iron curtain and causes the exodus of thousands of Eastern Germans to West Germany via Hungary (September 11).
1989 The Iron Curtain opens between the communist Hungary and Austria. From Hungary thousands of East Germans throng to Austria and West Germany.