The Iron Curtain Sign, near Salzwedel, Germany
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N 52° 53.037 E 010° 59.269
32U E 633753 N 5861211
Here Germany and Europe were divided till 11.10.1989 at 0:00h.
Waymark Code: WMG22Z
Location: Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
Date Posted: 01/03/2013
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"The Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. On either side of the Iron Curtain, states developed their own international economic and military alliances:
Member countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and the Warsaw Pact, with the Soviet Union as the leading country.
Member countries of the European Community and of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and associated countries with the United States as the leading country.
Physically, the Iron Curtain took the form of border defenses between the countries of Europe in the middle of the continent. The most notable border was marked by the Berlin Wall and its Checkpoint Charlie which served as a symbol of the Curtain as a whole.
The events that demolished the Iron Curtain started in discontent in Poland, and continued in Hungary, German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Romania. Romania was the only country in Europe to violently overthrow its communist regime."
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Group that erected the marker: Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Verkehr
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link]
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
B 71 from Salzwedel directio Bergen an der Dumme
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