The strict separation of the European countries under Soviet control and the West European countries most of all caused a great difference in post-WW 2 development. Western Europe - including even Germany - got a lot of financial support from its 'leader' country USA under the Marshall Plan to get back on its feet again economically and from the mid Fifties on, started to prosper again.
Russia on the other hand was dealing with East European countries that more often than not had supported Hitler - often with their troops - to invade and fight the USSR. Stalin therefore had good reasons not to feel too kindly disposed to them. Moreover, while the US economy had experienced a mighty upsurge in its economic growth as a result of the war - and so had the money to help Europe, the Soviet economy had suffered heavily by the invasion and Stalin saw taking anything he needed out of the countries under his control as a form of justified repair payments. All of this meant that Eastern Europe's economies were and remained backward until the fall of the Iron Curtain around 1990.
The imaginary wall that used to separate the US and Russia.The term 'Iron Curtain' refers to tanks, guns and as well as physical barriers. The term 'Iron Curtain' was said by Winston Churchill in 1946 in USA. The Iron Curtain was an imaginary line. It divided Europe into two blocks.
The Iron Curtain no longer exists. When it did, the country it divided was Germany.
it had a nose
stalin wanted to block people from going to western europe so he made the iron curtain to block them.
The Iron Curtain was a term given by Winston Churchill to the divide between communist eastern and capitalist western Europe.
The concept of the Iron Curtain, presented by Winston Churchill, had significance on the end of WWII and beginning of the Cold War. It presented the idea that capitalism was the correct ideology to follow and that communism was the "iron curtain" dividing the world into the capitalist Western powers and the Soviet Union and the other communist nations (e.g. China). Ultimately, it means that the two ideologies cannot coexist; the "curtain" is not flexible (since it is made of metal) thus the only way to unite the world is to destroy the curtain completely.
The Iron Curtain.
No. It was like invisible, there were only military forces. The term "iron curtain" was just a metaphor.
Yugoslavia and Albania were the cracks in the iron curtain.
the iron curtain speaks is a symbol of?
Gorbachev is given credit for ending the Iron Curtain.
iron curtain
Yes, Romania was inside the Iron Curtain.
Yes, Romania was inside the Iron Curtain.
The duration of The Iron Curtain - film - is 1.45 hours.
Yugoslavia and Albania were the cracks in the iron curtain.
The iron curtain