The term “Iron Curtain” is one that will immediately evoke
the memories of the Cold War: the tension filled days after the close of World
War II. The term first truly became part of the modern day lexicon after being
used by Sir Winston Churchill is a speech at a college in Missouri on this day in 1946.
This song does an excellent job at portraying the humanity
of the people from the 2 superpowers and their ideologies. After all the political
posturing and bellicose threats, after the decades of distrust and fear that
still exists today, our similarities are at the foundation of our lives, not
our differences. Or as Joel says: “We never knew what friends we had until we
came to Leningrad ”.
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