As far as Honecker was concerned, the iron curtain should stay closed.

Look to establish a power base with other old iron curtain countries.

He stood aside and pressed the button that worked the iron curtain.

There was communism and capitalism - each side of the iron curtain.

Yet from Lübeck to Trieste, an iron curtain divided the continent.

He was the highest-ranking source that the agency had behind the iron curtain.

In early 1950, Wisner ordered up a new assault on the iron curtain.

A black iron curtain crashed down before her and cut off the dream.

When Churchill warned of an iron curtain, Harry was with us.

Then he closes the window, as if he were lowering an iron curtain.

Only the locked door, the iron curtain, the vacuum, absolute zero.

And then the iron curtain came back down, and there was only silence.

There are no Russians behind Poland's iron curtain, and none in Poland's state hierarchy.

Behind the iron curtain, waiting was a way of life.

There's no doubt about it; you can't stomach the trick of the iron curtain.

There can be no iron curtain across the Irish countryside.