The term 'iron curtain' was popularised by former British prime minister Winston Churchill during a US speech in March 1946 dpa / Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert The Iron Curtain was an ideological and physical ...

When I started researching the Iron Curtain, I shared the widespread assumption that this symbolic device first descended into the world on 5 March 1946, when Winston Churchill went to the small town ...

As political metaphors go, “iron curtain” — first used to describe an actual partition in a theater — has gotten a good run. It’s been in circulation for 200 years. Sign up here. But since Winston ...

While the international community grapples with the millions of Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn nation, there has been a quieter exodus of middle-class Russian citizens fleeing their country ...