Iron Curtain Museum - Valtice, Czech Republic - Monuments of the Eastern Freedomfights on Waymarking.com

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.

The term symbolized efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its dependent and central European allies off from open contact with the west and non-communist areas. On the East side of the Iron Curtain were the countries that were connected to or influenced by the former Soviet Union. On either side of the Iron Curtain, states developed their own international economic and military alliances.

Iron Curtain Museum is located a fee hundreds meters from Austria-Czech border on the road that leads from the Czech town Valtice to the Austria town Schrattenberg. The museum explores the time of Iron Curtain in the period 1951 to 1989. It document daily life of border guard officials, their technical equipment, as well as photos and documents.

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Rate this waymark: Adress of the monument: Valtice Valtice, Czech Republic When was this monument palced?: 2011 Who placed this monument?: Not listed

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