Was Vienna Behind The Iron Curtain
Was Vienna Behind The Iron Curtain. Iron Curtain, political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the U. Meanwhile, behind this 'Iron Curtain', the Soviets were helping themselves to the raw materials and industrial resources of occupied nations.
I filmed there years ago and the pictures are in "Arena: Stories my country. Vienna's DDSG boat terminal is at Mexikoplatz, which is where Iron Curtain refugees can be seen (especially on Sundays) Eager to welcome me back from behind the Iron Curtain, they'd gone to the tour terminus to surprise me. The Iron Curtain as described by Churchill at Westminster College.
The Iron Curtain was the physical dividing line between Western Europe and the Warsaw Pact section of Commie Land during the Cold War, designed to stop people from the East going to the West, and (to a lesser extent) people from the West going to the East without authorization.
R after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas.
In one of the most famous orations of the Cold War period, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union's policies in Europe and declares, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic. The first thirty minutes are about a high-ranking Communist spy -- Theodore Bikel -- who wanders into Vienna and tries to defect -- but no one seems to want him. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade.