Some idealists believed that a strong peace movement in Western Europe would inspire those behindtheIronCurtain to demand disarmament from their rulers too.
Finally, let me just say that the Czechs continue to inspire the world with their own transition from being behindtheIronCurtain to freedom and democracy.
With enduring bonds forged across decades, the democracies that emerged one by one from behindtheIronCurtain are now America's allies and partners, and today we jointly confront global challenges.
As a young patent lawyer in the early 1960s he went behindtheIronCurtain 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 behindtheIronCurtain.
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 behindtheIronCurtain, Kaye said the orchestra's message of peace through music was especially resonant.