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# Iron Curtain

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Countries behind Iron Curtain are shaded red. Yugoslavia, although communist-run, was independent of the Eastern Bloc. Similarly, communist Albania broke with the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, aligning itself with the People's Republic of China after the Sino-Soviet split.

The Iron Curtain is a a word related to the Cold War. It denotes the border between the states which were members of the Warzaw pact (in Eastern Europe) and those that were not (then called The West).

This border was between the Democratic republic of germany (DDR), and the Federal Republic of Germany (BRD), between Czechosolvakia and Austria, and between Hungary and Austria.

Inner german border. At Point Alpha | Border Fence | Bunker, one side | Bunker, other side

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