Iron Curtain Quotes

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.

I don't want to live in a militarised country behind an iron curtain. It's boring. Been there and seen the movie. I've done that.