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The [[Iron Curtain]] referred to the bar to travel, commerce and communication with the nations of the West and the USSR erected by the [[Soviet Union]] after [[World War Two]].  The phrase was coined by [[Winston Churchill]], in 1946, in a speech at [[Westminster College]] in Fulton, [[Missouri]].  The [[Berlin Wall]] was perhaps its most visible symbol, dividing the city into the free [[West Berlin]] and the [[East Berlin]] under Soviet [[dictator]]ship.  The Iron Curtain's shredding took place after a series of events in the 1980s, perhaps best symbolized by [[Ronald Reagan]]'s demand in 1987 that Premier [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] of the Soviet Union "tear down this wall".

The [[Iron Curtain]] referred to the bar to travel, commerce and communication with the nations of the West and the USSR erected by the [[Soviet Union]] after [[World War II]].  The phrase was coined by [[Winston Churchill]], in 1946, in a speech at [[Westminster College]] in Fulton, [[Missouri]].  The [[Berlin Wall]] was perhaps its most visible symbol, dividing the city into the free [[West Berlin]] and the [[East Berlin]] under Soviet [[dictator]]ship.  The Iron Curtain's shredding took place after a series of events in the 1980s, perhaps best symbolized by [[Ronald Reagan]]'s demand on June 12, 1987 that Premier [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] of the Soviet Union "tear down this wall". The wall fell on November 9, 1989. [http://www.dailysoft.com/berlinwall/history/berlinwall-timeline.htm]

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