Eastern Europe Iron Curtain
Eastern Europe Iron Curtain. A unique collaboration between UNC center for european studies and burning coal theatre, revolution: the iron curtain in the spotlight immerses students in the history and art behind david edgar's eastern europe trilogy. On either side of the Iron Curtain.
The ideological barrier between Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe and the West gradually became a physical one spanning thousands of. While the Iron Curtain was in place, the countries of Eastern Europe and many in Central Europe (except West Germany, Switzerland and Austria) were under the political influence of the Soviet Union. The other Iron Curtain countries get only a passing glance.
All the pre-war governments had been quasi-fascist Iron Curtain also ignores the devastating effect of the collapse of the socialist bloc had on the world at large.
Iron Curtain contains some very vivid descriptions of the creation of new industrial towns in parts of central Europe, and how these were intended as models for the socialist society of the future.
Even the poor region of Podkarpacie, in the south-eastern corner of Poland, is miles ahead. Indeed the Central European states to the east of the Curtain were frequently regarded as being part. In the early years of the Cold War, thousands of East Germans fled to the West, thus breaching the Iron Curtain.