A Brief History Of The Iron Curtain
Brandenburg Gate, East and West Berlin. Getty Images.

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A Brief History Of The Iron Curtain

Michael Whittaker

From 1945-1989, the city of Berlin was the dividing line between two hostile camps.

West of Berlin lay a coalition of capitalistic liberal democracies spearheaded by the United States – to the East laid a string of communist totalitarian dictatorships dominated by the Soviet Union.

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