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

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1. • Ideological Barrier

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1. Pat Toomey:

   There are many, many great Americans who were born and raised behind the Iron Curtain, it is not about where she happens to be from, it's about the views she holds.

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. Willy Shih:

   Everybody in China uses WeChat. It's hard to appreciate how important it is for reaching people in China, it appears like [ the US ] is trying to drop an Iron Curtain between the countries so that people can't communicate with each other.

4. 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.

5. Winston Churchill:

   From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.