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English noun: iron curtain

1. iron curtain (cognition) 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


Broader (hypernym)ideological barrier









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