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

Matched Categories

1. • Ideological Barrier

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1. William Binney:

   Oct 2001, NSA and the US government started adopting procedures, techniques and processes that Soviet Union and Stasi and all countries behind iron curtain were using.

2. 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.

3. Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson:

   I fear that big parts of the global economy will ultimately be closed off to the free flow of investment and trade. And that is why I now see the prospect of an economic iron curtain -- one that throws up new walls on each side and unmakes the global economy, as we have known it.

4. 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.

5. 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.