The Iron Curtain Casts a Long Shadow Over Germany’s Election
The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to ...
Long shadow of the Iron Curtain
THREE and a half decades after reunification, a line runs through Germany where the Iron Curtain once stood. Instead of barbed wires and dogs, that line now divides Germans by measures like income and ...
11 Chilling Facts About the Cold War
Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban ...
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The Iron Curtain Casts a Long Shadow Over Germany's Election
BERLIN -- Three and a half decades after reunification, a line runs through Germany where the Iron Curtain once stood. Instead of barbed wires and dogs, that line now divides Germans by measures like ...
Five key takeaways from the German election
Put simply, more than four in every five of Germany's 59.2 million voters turned out. It reflects just how energised Germans ...
On This Day, March 5: Winston Churchill gives 'Iron Curtain' speech
Winston Churchill, in a famous speech in Fulton, Mo., stated that a Soviet Union "Iron Curtain" had "descended across" Europe ...
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ALEXANDER: VP Vance’s Historic ‘Iron Curtain’ Speech Will Be Remembered
Echoing Winston Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech that ushered in the Cold War and framed the geo-political landscape, Vice ...
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The German Democratic Republic, where Angela Merkel grew up, was neither democratic nor a republic; it was an Orwellian horror show, where the Iron Curtain found literal expression in the form of ...