Navratilova was the hard-muscled, jarringly-accented lesbian who emerged from behind the Iron Curtain.
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During a debate with Carter, Ford inexplicably insisted that nations behind the Iron Curtain were not dominated by the then-Soviet Union.
Without its political commitment much of Europe would have been behind the Iron Curtain, and arguably the Cold War would have been lost.
Virtually all of his customers were Soviet diplomats and high-ranking officials who orchestrated a profitable black market of Western goods behind the Iron Curtain.
In 1959, President Eisenhower issued the first Captive Nations Proclamation in solidarity with those living without personal or political autonomy behind the Iron Curtain.
Some idealists believed that a strong peace movement in Western Europe would inspire those behind the Iron Curtain to demand disarmament from their rulers too.
Broadcasting behind the Iron Curtain, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty were praised by Poland's Lech Walesa as being critical to the struggle against communism.
Finally, let me just say that the Czechs continue to inspire the world with their own transition from being behind the Iron Curtain to freedom and democracy.
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The answer to that riddle lies in the recent history of the Cold War, in which we learned the impact of free information on Soviet citizens behind the Iron Curtain.
Ten countries that once fell behind the Iron Curtain are now members of the European Union and NATO, and the rest will almost certainly join the Union within 15 years.
With enduring bonds forged across decades, the democracies that emerged one by one from behind the Iron Curtain are now America's allies and partners, and today we jointly confront global challenges.
"The Iron Lady behind the Iron Curtain, " it says.
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Russia was tucked away behind the Iron Curtain.
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As a young patent lawyer in the early 1960s he went behind the Iron Curtain and brought back the metal sutures that gave birth to U.S. Surgical Corp. and the technology to make soft contact lenses.
Ms Fabiani said he had promoted cross-cultural links, taking Scottish artists abroad and bringing other European artists to Scotland making a particular contribution to the understanding of Eastern European art between 1968 and 1989 with his journeys behind the Iron Curtain.
In a city which has finally regained its status as one of eastern Europe's leading cultural capitals after the devastation of World War II and decades largely isolated from the West behind the Iron Curtain, Kaye said the orchestra's message of peace through music was especially resonant.
And 20 years later, in the 1980s, America led by President Reagan refused to accept the fate of millions trapped behind an Iron Curtain, and insisted instead that the people of Eastern Europe be allowed to join the ranks of nations which live safe, strong and free.
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