What did the so called iron curtain symbolize?

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The so-called iron curtain symbolized the division of the eastern and western European countries after World War II. It was a symbolic division that included economics and politics between the satellite countries in which Communism was imposed by Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, and the western European countries that supported democracy and free enterprises such as France and Great Britain. The Communists countries of that time were East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Poland, and Hungary, Albania, and Bulgaria.

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