Synonyms for iron curtain
iron cur·tain

Princeton's WordNet

1. iron curtainnoun

   an impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy; used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the demarcation between democratic and communist countries

Matched Categories

1. • Ideological Barrier

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1. Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson:

   I fear that big parts of the global economy will ultimately be closed off to the free flow of investment and trade. And that is why I now see the prospect of an economic iron curtain -- one that throws up new walls on each side and unmakes the global economy, as we have known it.

2. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya:

   The invasion of Ukraine by the Belarusian army is a step with irreversible ramifications, it would be a shameful stain on relations with the Ukrainian people and would further isolate Belarus from the rest of the world, right up to the Iron Curtain, behind which Belarus would not be seen as an independent state, and life in the country would descend into poverty.

3. Margaret Thatcher:

   Perhaps I can summarise it best by saying this -- Nations that have pursued equality, like the Iron Curtain countries, I think have finished up with neither equality, nor liberty. Nations, which like us, in the past have pursued liberty, as a fundamental objective, extending it to all, have finished up with liberty, human dignity, and far fewer inequalities than other people.

4. William Binney:

   Oct 2001, NSA and the US government started adopting procedures, techniques and processes that Soviet Union and Stasi and all countries behind iron curtain were using.

5. Marina Kondratyeva:

   The leading dancer of our troupe ... made an incredible impression on London audiences, they didn’t know what our ballet was like. They didn’t know anything about us – there was the Iron Curtain and then the Iron Curtain opened and we arrived.