{"id":21595,"date":"2023-01-24T15:58:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T14:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=223448"},"modified":"2023-01-24T16:35:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T15:35:35","slug":"a-journey-along-the-iron-curtain","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/a-journey-along-the-iron-curtain\/","title":{"rendered":"A journey along the Iron Curtain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Dr David Musgrove\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 24 January 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>In 1946, Churchill declared that \u201cfrom Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent\u201d. But what exactly did this rhetorical border look like during the Cold War, and what\u2019s happening along it today? Timothy Phillips tells David Musgrove about his experiences travelling the length of the border between east and west, exploring the borderlands where a clash of ideologies was at its most intense.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-223448-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/01\/ironcurtain-4e4c168.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/01\/ironcurtain-4e4c168.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/01\/ironcurtain-4e4c168.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Timothy Phillips is the author of <em>The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe\u2019s Cold War Border<\/em> (Granta Books, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/the-curtain-and-the-wall-a-modern-journey-along-europe-s-cold-war-border\/9781783785766?aid=544&quot;\">Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Curtain-Wall-Modern-Journey-Europes-ebook\/dp\/B09TQM2KQJ?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&amp;xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fthe-curtain-and-the-wall%2Ftimothy-phillips%2F9781783785766&quot;\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr David Musgrove Published: Tuesday, 24 January 2023 at 12:00 am In 1946, Churchill declared that \u201cfrom Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent\u201d. 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