Just six years after Obama penned his little manifesto, the Iron Curtain came crashing down.
And in 1989, when the Iron Curtain opened, the Russian people welcomed her back with open arms.
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There has already been a dramatic shift in trade patterns since the demise of the iron curtain.
Today, we commemorate the collapse of the Iron Curtain and celebrate the freedom that grew in its place.
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Navratilova was the hard-muscled, jarringly-accented lesbian who emerged from behind the Iron Curtain.
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After the shadow of Communism lifted along with the Iron Curtain, Richard understood that America could not retreat from the world.
During a debate with Carter, Ford inexplicably insisted that nations behind the Iron Curtain were not dominated by the then-Soviet Union.
They thought it was an insult, but she turned it into a compliment and went on to melt the Iron Curtain.
His father was a Communist, and as a child, before the fall of the Iron Curtain, he listened to Radio Moscow.
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And as the Iron Curtain descended, they boarded a boat for America and arrived at Ellis Island, past the Statue of Liberty.
It was this yearning that brought down the Iron Curtain that divided Germany and Europe, and indeed the world, into two blocs.
Mind you, even the Iron Curtain couldn't block out all Eurovision influences.
Without its political commitment much of Europe would have been behind the Iron Curtain, and arguably the Cold War would have been lost.
Like other Austrian firms, Voestalpine has been doing a lot of business in central and eastern Europe since the iron curtain was lifted.
An economy of scarcity, the Iron Curtain, informants and party big-wigs -- the dark side of real socialism are just stories for her.
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Never mind that most Poles are now better off and healthier than they were when the iron curtain came down (see table 7).
He saw those changes then take place with incredible speed when the Berlin Wall came down and the Iron Curtain was pulled asunder.
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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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That is the bitter experience of loyal Atlanticists in eastern Europe, who have been waiting for America's visa regime to lift ever since the iron curtain fell.
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Following the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, the Lobkowicz family, who had long since fled to the United States, set about reclaiming the collection.
It was also a symbol of hope during the cold war, a place where scientists from both sides of the iron curtain could work together on peaceful projects.
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.
Just as Cold War thinking, on both sides of the Iron Curtain, created a certain ideological clarity, this clean division between the democrats and the autocrats is invigorating in its simplicity.
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.
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