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iron curtain

DEFINITIONS OF: iron curtain

1

n 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

Type of:
ideological barrier
a barrier to cooperation or interaction resulting from conflicting ideologies
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