Oikonymic Transformations in Romania in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century by Oliviu Felecan

“…It was an homage paid to the Soviet leader, whose name could be identified in another 13 oikonyms in the Eastern bloc, behind the Iron Curtain: Stalingrad — Volgograd (USSR), Stalin — Varna (Bulgaria), Stalinstadt — Eisenhüttenstadt (German Democratic Republic), Stalinograd — Katowice (Poland), Stalino — Donețk (Ukraine), and Sztálinváros — Dunaújváros (Hungary), among others. …”
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Whole Genome Sequencing and Metabolomic Study of Cave Streptomyces Isolates ICC1 and ICC4 by Jessica Thandara Gosse, Soumya Ghosh, Amanda Sproule, David Overy, Naowarat Cheeptham, Christopher N. Boddy

“…This secondary metabolite potential may contribute to the fitness of ICC1 and ICC4 in the Iron Curtain Cave.…”
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Den Kalten Krieg spielen. Brett- und Computerspiele in der Systemkonfrontation by Florian Greiner, Maren Röger

“…During the Cold War, millions of people on both sides of the Iron Curtain played board and digital games – in living rooms, barracks and schools. …”
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THE ECCLESIAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE LETTER OF THE POLISH BISHOPS TO THE GERMAN BISHOPS OF 1965 by Żmudziński Marek

“…They also influenced the life of the Church in a universal way, because its members found themselves of both sides of the Iron Curtain. This was particularly visible in Polish-German relations. …”
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Réseaux de villes et processus de recomposition des niveaux : le cas des villes baltiques by Nicolas Escach, Lise Vaudor

“…The intense cooperation among municipalities in the Baltic Sea Region since the 1990s and the fall of the Iron Curtain is part of this issue. This has led to the emergence of inequalities between large metropolitan areas which have obtained a very high level of internationalization, and medium-sized cities whose influence is currently limited to the Baltic region alone.…”
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Un rideau de fer entre la Russie et l’Union Européenne ? by Sophie Ollivier

“…The dissensions and the conflicts in countries which Russia considers as belonging to its area of influence, the competition between Russians and Westerners in strategic areas such as the Caucasus, create a climate which reminds onlookers of the climate of the Cold War and the terms « wall » « iron curtain » are frequently used by statesmen and commentators. …”
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The role of saintly personalities in popular discourses from around 1970 on Baroque artistic cultures by Ivan Gerát

“…This article identifies a number of concepts that have been used in popular discourse on Baroque art, architecture and visual culture on both sides of the Iron Curtain. These concepts are associated with the visual cult of the saints, and especially those that depicted their images, visions and emotions. …”
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Nicolae Ceaușescu and Polish „Solidarity” (Solidarność) by Ilarion Ţiu

“…Ceaușescu called in the action the states bellow the Iron Curtain in order to defend the socialism in Poland.…”
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Implications of the war in Ukraine on the Belt and Road Initiative by Vladimir Prebilič, Vid Jereb

“…The transport and energy flows of BRI will be disrupted due to the new Iron Curtain descending across Europe in the form of sanctions against aggressors in the war in Ukraine. …”
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Gained in Translation. Postmodern Architecture in Late Soviet Lithuania by Martynas Mankus

“…The phenomenon of postmodernism developed beyond the borders of the Soviet world, so the so-called “cultural logic of late capitalism” crossing the boundaries of the Iron Curtain has to be considered a consequence of globalization. …”
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Constructing the City of Solidarity: Alfred Roth’s Elementary School in Skopje by Ana Ivanovska Deskova, Vladimir Deskov, Jovan Ivanovski

“…For more than a decade, abundance of aid has been coming from the both sides of the Iron Curtain. In a short but high in intensity period of approximately 15 years, the city underwent a process of reconstruction that changed entirely its appearance and the quality of living. …”
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Progress of rehabilitation of large housing estates in Katowice (Poland) by Agata Warchalska-Troll

“…Large housing estates (LHEs) built during the communist era in the countries behind the ‘Iron Curtain’, nowadays, are places of residence for 20–30% of their population, covering a considerable amount of space in many cities. …”
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‘World Art Histories and the Cold War’ by Robert Born

“…In the two decades after World War II there were a series of panoramic overviews about the development of art published in both sides of the Iron Curtain. These include Mikail V. Alpatov’s “Vseobshchaya istoriya iskusstv” (The general history of art, 1948–1949), Arnold Hauser’s “Sozialgeschichte der Kunst und Literatur” (The social history of art and literature, 1953), as well as, providing a counter-model to a certain degree, Ernst H. …”
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Writing, rewriting and revisiting the Cold War in Tom Stoppard’s Squaring the Circle. Poland 1980-81 (1984) by Jean Du Verger

“…Moreover, Stoppard’s political commitment and his concern about what was happening behind the Iron Curtain tend to show him in a new light. Finally, I examine the way in which history is performed throughout the play and the impact it may have had on the audience at the time.…”
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Europe’s Fe/Male Identity by Mihály Vilma

“…Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech. Jose Ortega y Gasset’s Meditation on Europe. …”
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Jan Zábrana a překládání za studené války // Jan Zábrana and translation during the Cold war by Justin Quinn

“…This essay examines the cultural dynamics that were established at the outset of the Cold War, especially from the mid-1950s to mid-1960s, that dictated the translation and production of poetry on both sides of the Iron Curtain. In 1959 the Czech poet Jan Zábrana (1931–1984) translated and edited an anthology of radical American poets, and by exploring the contexts of his editorial decisions we uncover the above mentioned dynamics, also precipitating revaluations of American canon formation in this period. …”
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Memories from the future: constative and performed identities in ideologized spaces by Felix Nicolau

“…And after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, the Southeast European space preserved mass nostalgia: Stalin, Tito and Ceausescu are still guardianship figures for many of various social categories. …”
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Borderlands in times of crisis: The possibility of de-marginalisation of the Polish border zone with Russia after the outbreak of war in Ukraine by Studzińska Dominika

“…The Polish-Russian border, closed since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, transformed into an iron curtain without any chance for its disappearance in a long-term perspective. …”
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Transitional Justice and the Holocaust in Poland by Frydel Tomasz

“…The current state of research points to two emerging stories of Polish judicial reckoning with the Holocaust “behind the Iron Curtain.” On the one hand, scholars increasingly agree that the trials were not politically orchestrated but were generally conducted in the spirit of the rule of law, comparable to those held in Western European courts. …”
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"Great Ideas" in Russian Psychology: Personality Impact on Psychophysiological Functions and Causal Approach to Self- determination by Irina A. Mironenko

“…These concepts were formulated before “iron curtain” fell. Since then Russian science dropped out from the view of western colleagues for decades. …”
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