the Iron Curtain
(fig 比喻) the frontier separating the former USSR and other communist countries of Eastern Europe from the West, seen by the West as a barrier to information and trade 铁幕（从西方观点看前苏联及东欧共产党国家与西方之间在信息、 贸易等方面的屏障）
life behind the Iron Curtain 铁幕後的生活
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Iron Curtain countries, ie countries of the former Soviet bloc 铁幕国家（即前苏联集团各国）.