Iron Curtain

The Iron Curtain was the divide betwwen Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe during the Cold War. The Iron curtain was seen as the divide between Totalitarianism and Democracy and most of the Western European countries were democratic. Spain and Portugal were Dictatorships till the 1970's and Greece was a dictatorship for about a decade round the 1960's and the 1970's but this was generally ignored and Western Europe was thought of as free Europe.