Nõukogude garaažikultuur. Soviet Garage Culture by Tauri Tuvikene

“…Getting around in a car inevitably means aneed to park it somewhere; this basic fact applied to both sides of the Iron Curtain. However, garage areas have carried more importance in socialist societies – there is more of them, and they feature a large amount of parking spaces (hundreds if not thousands). …”
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Understanding the crisis in harm reduction funding in Central and Eastern Europe by Michal Miovský, Silvia Miklíková, Viktor Mravčík, Jean-Paul Grund, Tereza Černíková

“…Abstract Background The harm reduction (HR) approach to injecting drug use was rapidly adopted in Central Europe following the fall of the Iron Curtain. The associated social and economic transformation had significant consequences for drug policies in the region. …”
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Relatos de memoria: lecturas mediáticas de la revolución de terciopelo a partir del imaginario colectivo de la Transición española by Virginia Martín Jiménez

“…The perspective from which the media analysed and disseminated what happened across the “Iron Curtain”, was influenced by the fact that Czechoslovak events took place when the Spanish transition was beginning to be part of the historical memory of the nation and began to consolidate the collective imagination of what happened after the end of Franco dictatorship. …”
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In Search of Postmodern City: Urban Changes and Continuities in East Central Europe between Late Socialism and Capitalism (1970–2000) by Matěj Spurný, Petr Roubal, Henrieat Moravčíková, Peter Szalay

“…The reality of the 1990s was not formed exclusively by the export of economic, intellectual, or aesthetic situations from the “West” to the “East” after the collapse of the Iron Curtain: without a thorough understanding of the essence of late socialism, we cannot understand what happened to the cities between the Baltic and the Black Sea in the Nineties – or more importantly, why it did.…”
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‘Continually Walking a Tightrope’: Edith Pargeter’s Literary Crusade for Czechoslovakia by Suzanne Bray

“…The optimism did not last as one year later the Communists took over and the iron curtain became a reality. The only means Pargeter could find to help her Czechoslovak friends was literature or, more precisely, the act of writing, which became a weapon in the Cold War. …”
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Kraj povijesti i hrvatski novopovijesni roman by Natka Badurina

“…The “end of history” in Eastern Europe is often connected to the fall of the Iron curtain, so that anthropologists, referring to Lyotard, speak of “the post-socialist condition” (see Prica 2006: 10). …”
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Banking on the environment : multilateral development banks and environmental policymaking in Central and Eastern Europe by Gutner, Tamar L

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Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978): A Retrospective by David Z. Kushner

“…The complete ballet, however, and the three suites extracted from it, achieved, along with other works by the Armenian musician, acclaim from the political gurus on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The works of the student years were considerable (more than fifty) and already suggest the individual styles with which he later became associated. …”
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AZERBAYCAN – SOVYET YAZARLARININ YARATICILIĞINDA TÜRKİYE: 1960-1980 DÖNEMİ KAYNAKLARINA BİR BAKIŞ by Namıq AHMADOV

“…ABSTRACT: Removal of the iron curtain after the death of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin brought about a new stage in the restoration of relations with Turkey. …”
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Biobank Semantic Information Management With The Health Intelligence Platform by Christian Seebode, M. Ort, S. González Álvarez, C.R.A. Regenbrecht

“…This closes the loop and opens the iron curtain between clinical processes and clinical research. …”
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Reflecting on “Red Laughter”: English-Language Studies of Soviet Comedy / Осмысляя «красный смех»: англоязычные исследования о советской кинокомедии... by ZHURKOVA DARIA A. / ЖУРКОВА Д.А.

“…The first surge of interest in Soviet film comedy came in the first half of the 1990s and was largely associated with the fall of the Iron Curtain. The major subject of research during those years were Soviet avant-garde cinema of the 1920s, musical comedies of the 1930s, and films of the Perestroika period. …”
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Biomineralization in Cave Bacteria—Popcorn and Soda Straw Crystal Formations, Morphologies, and Potential Metabolic Pathways by Keegan Koning, Richenda McFarlane, Jessica T. Gosse, Sara Lawrence, Lynnea Carr, Derrick Horne, Nancy Van Wagoner, Christopher N. Boddy, Naowarat Cheeptham

“…Here, we studied bacterial communities from speleothems collected from the Iron Curtain Cave (ICC) in Chilliwack, B.C., Canada, to characterize these organisms and determine whether urease-positive (U+) bacteria were present in the cave and their potential impact on speleothem formation. …”
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TRADATIONAL FAMILY VALUES AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES OF AZERBAIJANIS by Dr. Nuruzade sahla

“…The removal of the "iron curtain" after the collapse of the USSR, as well as the processes of globalization have caused certain changes in the values of the Azerbaijanis. …”
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Giovanni Paolo II al Parlamento Europeo nel 1988 – La promozione dei valori umani, eredità dell’Europa e salvaguardia della sua identità by Roberto Formigoni

“…Europe was still divided by the iron curtain; the concept of Central Europe practically ceased to function in the West, and Eastern Europe was rarely and faintly distinguished from Russia. …”
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Elus esinevad asjad. Popkunst lääne eeskujul argipäeva dokumenteerijana by Anneli Porri

“…It seems that in this context the young artists opened the can to get in there, and finally see all the things that are discussed in magazines of visual art on the other side of the Iron Curtain.…”
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Meisterlikud õpipoisid. Jaan Kaplinski ja tema hingesugulane Tomas Tranströmer / Masterful Servants: Jaan Kaplinski and his soulmate Tomas Tranströmer by Thomas Salumets

“…. --- Separated by the Iron Curtain, Jaan Kaplinski (1941–2021) and Tomas Tranströmer (1931–2015) grew up in very different worlds. …”
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Beyond the burning centre of cataclysm: Reception of Eastern Europe in poetry and criticism of mid-1960s Britain by Majak, A

“…On many occasions, critics have noted that the mid-1960s saw the first explicit and intensified interest in poetry from beyond the Iron Curtain, but little attempt has been made to detect how this specific type of resonance manifested itself in the action, collaborations, and new initiatives characteristic of this time of stark political divisions and the impact these divisions had on the perception of Eastern Europe as cultural periphery. …”

Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War— the Role of Health Professionals by Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Marcel GM Olde Rikkert, Andy Haines, Ira Helfand, Richard Horton, Robert Mash, Arun Mitra, Carlos Monteiro, Elena Naumova, Eric Rubin, Tilman Ruff, Peush Sahni, James Tumwine, Paul Yonga Yonga, Chris Zielinski

“…The health community has had a crucial role in efforts to reduce the risk of nuclear war and must continue to do so in the future.9 In the 1980s the efforts of health professionals, led by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), helped to end the Cold War arms race by educating policy makers and the public on both sides of the Iron Curtain about the medical consequences of nuclear war. …”
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Correspondents and the Cold War. How foreign correspondents acted during the chancellery of Helmut Schmidt (1974-1982) in Germany and abroad by Thomas Birkner

“…Analysis of theinterviews and the private and secret correspondence of Schmidt with journalists affordsan inside view into the role foreign correspondents played during the Cold War when communicationacross the Iron Curtain was especially challenging. Our conclusions show howimportant foreign correspondents are in international relations, while also demonstrating that aspects of international diplomacy, though involving journalists, were not necessarily included in media coverage. …”
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