Iron Curtain Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Analogous terms== Throughout the Cold War the term "curtain" would become a common euphemism for boundaries – physical or ideological – between socialist and capitalist states. * An analogue of the Iron Curtain, the [[Bamboo Curtain]], surrounded the People's Republic of China. As the standoff between the West and the countries of the Iron and Bamboo curtains eased with the end of the Cold War, the term fell out of any but historical usage. * The short distance, 3.8 km (2.4 mi), between the Soviet Union ([[Big Diomede]]) and the U.S. ([[Little Diomede Island]], state of [[Alaska]]) in the [[Bering Sea]] became known as the "[[Bering Strait#"Ice Curtain" border|Ice Curtain]]" during the Cold War. * A field of [[cactus|cacti]] surrounding the [[United States Navy|U.S. Naval]] station at [[Guantanamo Bay Naval Base|Guantanamo Bay]] planted by [[Cuba]] was occasionally termed the "[[Cactus Curtain]]".<ref name="Murphy chapter 18">{{cite web| url=https://www.cnic.navy.mil/Guantanamo/AboutGTMO/gtmohistgeneral/gtmohistmurphy/gtmohistmurphyvol1/gtmohistmurphyvol1ch18/CNIC_046293|title=The History of Guantanamo Bay 1494 – 1964: Chapter 18, "Introduction of Part II, 1953 – 1964"|author1=M. E. Murphy |author2=Rear Admiral |author3=U. S. Navy | access-date=27 March 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,940656,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081229213928/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,940656,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=29 December 2008 | magazine=Time | title=The Hemisphere: Yankees Besieged | date=16 March 1962 | access-date=5 May 2010}}</ref> * The phrase "[[Grass Curtain]]" was used by South Sudanese during the [[First Sudanese Civil War]] to describe the oppression that hid political violence in Southern Sudan from wider attention.<ref>{{cite book |last1= Wöndu|first1= Steven |last2= Lesch |first2= Ann Mosely |date= 2000 |title= Battle for Peace in Sudan: An Analysis of the Abuja Conferences, 1992-1993 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=SynjyYRvm4YC&q=%22Grass+Curtain%22+southern+sudan&pg=PR7 |location= Washington, D.C. |publisher= University Press of America (Rowman & Littlefield) |page= vii |isbn= 0761815163}}</ref> * The phrase "[[Tofu Curtain]]" has been used to describe socioeconomic divides between more affluent, college educated [[green politics|green liberals]] and their working class neighbors. The term proliferates a county line in [[Western Massachusetts]], a street in [[Melbourne, Australia]], and other borders around the globe with usage recorded as early as 1984.<ref name="Toensmeier and Bates, 2013">{{cite book|last1=Toensmeier|first1=Eric|last2=Bates|first2=Jonathan|title=Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City|date=2013|publisher=Chelsea Green Publishing|location=White River Junction, Vt.|page=24|isbn=9781603583992|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Dávila and Rivero, 2014">{{cite book|last1=Dávila|first1=Arlene|last2=Rivero|first2=Yeidy M.|title=Contemporary Latina/o Media: Production, Circulation, Politics|date=2014|publisher=New York University Press|location=New York|isbn=9781479848119|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Campeau|first1=Lisa|title=Remembering the Tofu Curtain|url=http://www.icc.coop/story/alumni/cooperator/AlumCooperator2010Final.pdf|accessdate=2 March 2017|work=The Alumni Cooperator|publisher=Inter-Cooperative Council|date=2010–2011|page=19}}</ref> *The phrase [[Steel Curtain]] was used to describe the defense of the [[Pittsburgh Steelers]], an American Football team based in [[Pittsburgh]], PA, in the 1970s. The city of Pittsburgh has long ties with the industrial steel industry.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Battista|first1=Judy|title=Steelers' Defense Recalls Steel Curtain Memories|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/sports/football/01defense.html?mcubz=2&mcubz=2|access-date=May 28, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=January 31, 2009}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page