Iron+Curtain

****The Iron Curtain was the name for the barrier created in 1945 to separate land controlled by the USSR Communists and the Allied forces and anti-communist areas. The Iron Curtain was the real and psychological division between Soviet Russia and the rest of Europe. In some places there were physical barriers ****** made of concrete and barbed wired, surrounded by landmines, guard towers, and other defenses. These walls were meant to both keep the enemy out and to keep the citizens in. ** ** The Iron Curtain was up until 1991 and was torn down by civilians. This wall was torn down first by the Polish and then the Hungarians. ** **The Iron Curtain went over some major cities like Berlin, Warsaw, and Vienna, etc. That meant if you were on the east side of the Iron Curtain you fell under the power of the USSR. The Soviet Union with the Iron Curtain controlled if news, supplies, food, and people came in and out. With the Iron Curtain the USSR controlled East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Poland. **
 * The Iron Curtain **
 * Although this Iron Curtain played a role in the Cold War, not a lot of it remains today. They have a memorial in Budapest where the original fence sat.This Wall is so important because it separated half of Europe for 45 years. **