IRON CURTAIN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy; used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the demarcation between democratic and communist countries

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("iron curtain" is a kind of...):

ideological barrier (a barrier to cooperation or interaction resulting from conflicting ideologies)

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